What is Budgeting

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(Assignment should be in paragraph form, use headers versus restating questions. Paragraphs are 5 to 7 sentences and should have complete sentences. Do not use bullets or numbers. And it is okay to have more than one paragraph for one response. Just separate responses by headers.):

Respond to the following using essay form (each response should not be limited to one brief paragraph).

You are required to provide at least three correctly cited and formatted references (at least one per response) for this assignment

• What are the most important elements of a budget?
• Is there any area of budgeting where you do not need to be precise?
• What do you think about the federal deficit, and how can it be reduced?

History of slavery and its impact on cotemporary society?

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Why do you think this topic is important enough to write about? What is the perspective you will be looking at the topic from? What is your thesis?(This is a clear, one sentence statement of what you will prove about the topic listed above. It is a roadmap for your whole project. Next provide information, specifically, you, will set out to find in your research materials that you think can prove your thesis-examples: first person accounts/diaries, explanation in psychology journals, actual works of art and literature, historical documents, government statistics, etc. In a nutshell, what kind of information do you think will prove your point?

Determine change, writing homework help

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Use the following information to ensure successful completion moments. It is recommended that learners review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment in order of the assignment:

  • Instructors will be using a grading rubric to grade the assignment to become familiar with the assignment criteria and expectations for successful completion of the assignment.
  • Doctoral learners are required to use APA style for their writing assignments. The APA Style Guide is in the Student Success Center.
  • This assignment requires that at least two additional scholarly research sources related to this topic, and at least one in-text citation from each source be included.

Directions:

Write a paper of 750-1,000 words that addresses the methods leaders use to determine if an organization needs and is ready to accept change. Include the following in your paper:

  1. An analysis of the factors used to determine if change is needed in a given organization.
  2. A discussion of how to determine if an organization is structurally ready to support change leading to a culture of continuous learning, improvement, and adaptation.

Foundations for Change

Excellent

100.00%

100.0 %Criteria

30.0 %Analysis of the Factors Used to Determine If Change Is Needed

35.0 %Discussion of How To Determine if an Organization Is Structurally Ready to Support Change

5.0 %Two Additional Scholarly Research Sources With In-Text Citations.

7.0 %Thesis Development and Purpose

8.0 %Argument Logic and Construction

5.0 %Mechanics of Writing (includes spelling, punctuation, grammar, language use)

5.0 %Paper Format (Use of appropriate style for the major and assignment)

5.0 %Research Citations (In-text citations for paraphrasing and direct quotes, and reference page listing and formatting, as appropriate to assignment and style)

100 %Total Weighted

Culture, Society, Sociological Perspective and Values

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Select two (2) of the following 3 questions. Your answers should be 2 -3 pages per essay. Use 12 inch font, black ink, double spaced. WORD document. Page numbers.

Grammar and spelling should be proofread.

Remember to focus on the sociological perspective in answering your questions. No outside references or internet sources, use only your texts.

Remember you are answering as a Sociologist.

  1. Do you consider a large US multinational corporation to be a bureaucracy? Why or why not? Which of the main characteristics of bureaucracies would one expect to see in them? Which would you expect no to be present?

  1. Select a “deviant” group in our society and explain why a sociologist would consider them deviant. Using the sociological perspective, apply the three main sociological theoretical explanations for this group. Finally explain which is most logical to you?

  1. Is socialization critical to a society such as yours? Why or why not? How is socialization possible in our society? By what means are our cultural norms and values reinforced?

Administrative theory and organizational leadership/management.

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PLEASE READ THE FULL ASSIGNMENT BEFORE BIDDING. THIS IS NOT A PAPER, JUST NEED A FEW PARAGRAPHS FOR EACH SENTENCES.

DO THE BEST THAT YOU CAN, BECAUSE I DONT HAVE THE TEXT BOOK.

This module concentrates on the history of administrative theory and organizational leadership/management. After reading Chapters 8 and 9, write an initial post in which you address the following:

You have recently been hired as the police chief in Brady City. The city council fired the former chief due to his inability to address the ongoing poor performance within the department and citizen complaints about police officer conduct. Outline a strategy that you would employ to change the culture of the police department and increase police officer accountability.

Respond to at least two of your peers by proposing a complementary motivational plan and a corrective action for their force. Use at least one administrative theory from Chapter 8 in your responses. Discuss how you would motivate the police officers to increase their performance standards and, using the information from Chapter 9, describe how you would hold them accountable.

Refer to the Discussion Rubric for directions on completing this discussion.

Sexism, Society, and Science

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Assignment 1: Sexism, Society, and Science

Write a two-page paper (five-paragraph) essay discussing two of the following readings:

Margaret Edson, Wit

David Noble “Women in a World Without Women,” from A World Without Women

Deborah Warner, “Science Education for Women in Antebellum America,” History of Women in Sciences

Margaret Rossiter, Women Scientists in America, chapter 4: “A Manly Profession,” 73-99, notes

Sena Jeter Naslund, excerpt on Maria Mitchell from Ahab’s Wife

Nina Baym, American Women of Letters and the Nineteenth-Century Sciences, chapter 7: “Testing Scientific Limits: Emma Willard and Maria Mitchell”

Your paper should cite at least two readings from the above list within an argument based on the evidence from the texts. Build an argument within the paper considering aspects of barriers and facilitators women have faced in Western Europe and the U.S. in the early modern and modern periods and coming to a conclusion about today’s situation for women in science.

Focus on a particular question of your own construction that deals with the “how,” “why,” and “in what way” women’s participation in science was supported or challenged by individuals. Consider sociocultural and religious values associated with women’s roles in society that supporters and challengers used in defense of their arguments. Be careful to identify the authors, texts, historical periods, scientific fields, individuals, and other aspects of the cases that you develop.

Examples of questions you might choose to write about include:

In what ways did women’s educational opportunities enable or constrain their participation in science?

What groups/individuals favored women’s science education and why did they favor it?

What groups/individuals opposed women’s science education/participation and why were they opposed?

How did women overcome resistance to persist and to promote their interests in science? What strategies did they employ? Were they effective? Why or why not?

Selecting and refining a question that you can respond to will help you develop a thesis statement.

Your short analysis should

  1. briefly summarize significant points from the arguments illustrated in the readings you select
  2. hypothesize the cultural ideas concerning masculinity or femininity that are encoded in the social values affecting women’s participation and/or performance in science
  3. provide evidence from the readings for your hypothesis

The best analyses will reflect argumentative points or allude to evidence contained within the readings; indicate citations by incorporating parenthetical references, for example: (Baym, 246) into your assignment. Remember that the quality of citation counts more than sheer quantity of references.

If you have questions or would like to discuss developing the assignment, please bring these matters up in class or on the listserv. You may also make an appointment to see me in my office; please email or speak to me outside of class concerning appointments.

Presentation:

The essay should be typed using double spacing. Number each page. Use one-inch justified margins on the top, bottom, and left side and a ragged one-inch right margin. Staple pages in the upper left corner; please do not use any covers. Put the following on the top of the first page or the title page: the title of the essay, your names, the title of the course, my name, the semester in which you are taking the course, and the due date of the assignment. Put all references to class texts parenthetically within the text of the paper (see above); if you consult other materials, please indicate those with a short parenthetical reference and a works cited page

CAREER COUNSELING THEORY CASE STUDY

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Career Counseling Theory Case Study

For this assignment, you will demonstrate your knowledge and understanding of career counseling theory by choosing a career counseling theory addressed in Units 1 or 2 and applying it to the case study provided below. Approach the case study from the perspective of your individual specialization (mental health counseling, school counseling, and so forth). You can embellish the case scenario as needed to help you complete the assignment.

Scenario

Taneka, a 17-year-old African-American female, is a high school junior. She is the eldest of three siblings living with her single-parent mother. Her mother has worked for the past 15 years at a manufacturing plant. Her father has not been a part of Taneka’s life.
As the eldest, Taneka has held major responsibilities throughout her life to support her working mother, such as caring for her younger siblings: Derrick, now age 14, and Kenya, age 12. These early duties reinforced development of her natural leadership skills. Taneka has been recognized from an early age for being mature, responsible, and dependable. As her siblings have grown, she has been able to have part-time jobs, most recently as a salesperson at a teen fashion store in the local mall. It was here that she first realized she had a knack for dealing with people, and they responded well to her—employers, co-workers, and customers alike. She was recently approached by her supervisor to consider participating in the company’s employee leadership training program.
This has caused Taneka to start thinking about post-secondary educational possibilities. Previously she had thought college was out of her reach, due to the limited financial resources of her family and no history of anyone in her family ever attending college. As such, she had not previously given much importance to her grades. Rather than participating in extracurricular school activities, she focused on working. She is on track for graduating with her class next year and has a current grade point average of 2.05.
Taneka is now questioning her previous assumption about college or other post-secondary educational possibilities, but she does not have a clear idea of what she would like to pursue as a career. Choosing a career and a post-secondary program to prepare for it, seeking financial support, and navigating the admissions procedure all remain mysteries to her.

In your paper, address the following:

  • Argue for one relevant theory to be applied to the scenario. Note: Appropriate career counseling theories include, but are not limited to, Holland, Super, Krumboltz, Gottfredson, Social Cognitive Theory, and Person-Environment-Fit.
  • Identify the theory you chose and provide a rationale as to why you have selected this career theory.
  • Describe the key components of your chosen career counseling theoretical framework.
  • Analyze any challenges you might have applying this theory to the case.
  • Propose possible approaches for addressing the challenges you identified.
  • Be sure to include research findings that support your use of this theory. Include a minimum of one supporting reference not provided in this course.

Your assignment should be 4–5 pages in length and include at least three references, including your text. Be sure to indicate your specialization in your paper. Review the Career Counseling Theory Case Study Scoring Guide to understand the grading expectations for this assignment.

READINGS

Use your Career Counseling text to complete the following:

  • Read Chapter 3, “Career Counseling Models,” pages 77–120.
  • Read Chapter 4, “Integrating Career and Personal Counseling,” pages 121–136.
  • Read Appendix C, “Multicultural Career Counseling Checklist,” pages 416–418.
  • Review Chapter 2 and Appendix B as necessary to provide information for this unit’s discussion activities.

Multimedia

Click The Career Diamond to view the interactive piece, featuring an interview with Patricia Andersen, EdD. This presentation provides an illustrated demonstration of the Career Diamond.

Optional Readings

Use the Capella University Library to read one of the following articles related to your specialization area:

  • Walker, J. V., & Peterson, G. W. (2012). Career thoughts, indecision, and depression: Implications for mental health assessment in career counseling. Journal of Career Assessment, 20(4), 497–506.
  • Anctil, T. M., Smith, C. K., Schenck, P., & Dahir, C. (2012). Professional school counselors’ career development practices and continuing education needs. Career Development Quarterly, 60(2), 109–121.
  • Harrington, T., & Long, J. (2013). The history of interest inventories and career assessments in career counseling. Career Development Quarterly, 61(1), 83–92.

Career Counseling Theory Case Study Scoring Guide

Due Date: Unit 2
Percentage of Course Grade: 10%.

CRITERIA NON-PERFORMANCE BASIC PROFICIENT DISTINGUISHED
Describe the key components of a career counseling theory.
21%		 Does not identify the key components of a career counseling theory. Identifies a career counseling theory but does not describe its key components. Describes the key components of a career counseling theory. Describes the key components of a career counseling theory with exceptional clarity, incorporating relevant information form the literature.
Apply a career counseling theory to a client scenario.
21%		 Does not apply a career counseling theory to a client scenario. Identifies a career counseling theory but does not specifically apply it to a client scenario. Applies a career counseling theory to a client scenario. Applies a career counseling theory to a client scenario, supporting the rationale with relevant literature.
Analyze potential challenges and solutions to applying a career counseling theory to a client scenario.
21%		 Does not describe potential challenges and solutions to applying a career counseling theory to a client scenario. Describes potential challenges or solutions to applying a career counseling theory to a client scenario. Analyzes potential challenges and solutions to applying a career counseling theory to a client scenario. Analyzes potential challenges and solutions to applying a career counseling theory to a client scenario, supporting the analysis with relevant literature.
Analyze research findings related to the use of a chosen career counseling theory in a client scenario.
21%		 Does not describe research findings related to the use of a chosen career counseling theory in a client scenario. Describes research findings related to the use of a chosen career counseling theory in a client scenario. Analyzes research findings related to the use of a chosen career counseling theory in a client scenario. Analyzes research findings related to the use of a chosen career counseling theory in a client scenario, providing both critical and supporting evidence.
Communicate effectively through the consistent use of grammar, punctuation, mechanics, and APA format expected of a counseling professional.
16%		 Communicates in an ineffective and unprofessional manner through unclear, wordy, disorganized, and grammatically incorrect writing that incorporates incorrect APA style conventions. Communicates in an inconsistent manner through language that lacks clarity, conciseness, organization, and proper grammar usage or that incorporates APA style conventions with errors that detract from the strength of the writing. Communicates in an effective and professional manner using scholarly resources that support the analysis through clear, concise, well-organized, and grammatically correct writing that incorporates appropriate APA style conventions with few errors. Communicates in an exemplary, effective, and professional manner using scholarly resources that support the analysis by connecting concepts through clear, concise, well-organized, and grammatically correct writing that incorporates appropriate APA style conventions with no errors.

Critical Appraisal of Practice, health and medicine homework help

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Title: Critical Appraisal of Practice Guidelines

Details:

While there are several tools to critically appraise practice guidelines, the most comprehensively validated appraisal tool is the AGREE II Instrument. The Agree II Instrument can be used by individual practitioners to critically appraise health guidelines and by decision makers to inform policy decisions. The purpose of the AGREE II Instrument is to provide a framework to:

1.Assess the quality of guidelines.

2.Provide a methodological strategy for the development of guidelines.

3.Inform what information and how the information ought to be reported in guidelines.

Overall assessment includes rating the overall quality of the guideline and whether the guideline would be recommended for use in practice.

Items are rated on a 7-point scale from 1 (Strongly Disagree) to 7 (Strongly Agree). A score of 1 is given when there is no information on that item or if it is poorly reported. A score of 7 is given if the quality of reporting is excellent and when full criteria have been met (Score explanations found in the AGREE II-GRS Instrument).

A quality score is calculated for each of the six domains, which are independently scored. Domain scores are calculated by summing up all the scores of the items in the domain and by scaling the total as a percentage of the maximum possible score for that specific domain.


For this assignment, you will choose a guideline and assess the overall quality and whether the guideline would be recommended for use in practice.

General Requirements:

Use the following information to ensure successful completion of this assignment:

•Download the AGREE II instrument.

•While APA format is not required for the body of this assignment, solid academic writing is expected, and in-text citations and references should be presented using APA documentation guidelines, which can be found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center. Only scholarly nursing journals must be utilized (2 minimum).

Directions:

Perform the following tasks to complete this assignment:

1.Using the AGREE II instrument as your guide, create a table that discusses a practice guideline in which you might have questioned the recommendations. (Note: You may be able to copy and paste the instrument into a new Word document and complete the information.)

2.Each domain must have its own cell (similar to the one shown in the manual) and add domain scores and an overall guideline assessment. Be sure to include comments and additional considerations that influenced your rating decision and cite any sources used.

Netflix Abstract, Annotated Outline, Annotated Bibliography

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For this assessment, create an abstract, annotated outline, and
annotated bibliography. Compile your assessment into a single,
well-organized file that includes the following three pieces:

  1. Abstract: Begin with a 200–300 word preliminary
    abstract of your capstone project. Remember that an abstract should
    summarize the main points in your paper, not just introduce it. Your
    abstract may change as you finalize your project, but for this
    assessment you should have a well-written draft of your abstract. Refer
    to the Abstracts document, linked in the Resources, for more information
    on writing an abstract.
  2. Annotated Outline: An annotated outline is a
    document that outlines the main sections your paper will have. Your
    outline must include an introduction and conclusion and at least four
    other headings in between. In addition, each of those four headings must
    have at least two sub-points and one quotation from a source that you
    might use for support, in full APA format. Refer to the Developing an
    Annotated Outline document, linked in the Resources, for more
    information on annotated outlines.
  3. Annotated Bibliography: An annotated bibliography
    is a way of collecting a list of sources that you intend to use in your
    paper and summarizing them. List each source in full APA format, and
    provide a summary (written in your own words, not a quotation) of 2–4
    sentences. Then, for each source explain in an additional 2–4 sentences
    why the source is important and how you might use it to support your
    project. You must have at least 10 annotated references, including
    annotations for all sources that you used in the annotated outline.
    Refer to the Annotated Bibliography presentation, linked in the
    Resources, for more information on creating an annotated bibliography.

Additional Requirements

  • Written communication: Written communication is free of errors that detract from the overall message.
  • APA formatting: Resources and citations are formatted according to APA (6th edition) style and formatting.
  • Number of resources: Minimum of 10 resources.
  • Length of paper: 3–6 typed, double-spaced pages.
  • Font and font size: Times New Roman, 12 point.

principle of finance 100

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The capital markets and the ability to raise funds for corporate uses are essential to the US economic systems. For this assignment, imagine that you have $25,000 to invest in US companies. You are buying used stock. The company got the money when it issued the stock originally. You will be buying it from an existing owner.

You are investing, or buying the stock, because you believe the company will make money and pay you a dividend in cash. Each share of stock that you buy entitles you to any dividend declared and a vote at the annual stockholders’ meeting.

The stock also allows you the ability to earn your money back by selling the stock. Of course, investing in stocks is risky and there is the possibility that the stock you buy will be worth less when you want your money back. The company is not obligated to give you any of your money back. You will only get your money back if another investor wants to buy your stock.

complete the following:

  1. Indicate the companies you are investing in: Select three (3) US companies that are publicly traded I’d like to use CHEVRON, SOUTHWEST AIRLINE AND DILLARDS. Please use your knowledge and experience and pick, as many stocks as you’d like. Lastly, make sure you are practicing good diversification. Jim Cramer, Money Manger, on CNBC, plays a game at the end of his show called “Am I Diversified.” Check out a short clip to get a sense of industry diversification at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3lDxexupcE.
  2. Sources of Information: There are many ways to find such companies and the stock prices, including the New York Stock Exchange at http://www.nyse.com, Google Finance at http://google.com, NASDAQ at http://www.nasdaq.com, and http://finance.yahoo.com.
  3. Indicate the amount you are investing in each company: Decide how you will divide $25,000 across the three (3) companies; e.g. $10,000 in Company 1, $10,000 in Company 2, and $5,000 in Company 3. You decide the amount you are investing in each company. You do not have to provide any analysis to justify your decisions. You must only provide some reason for picking that company. For example, you might invest in Ford because that company gets a lot of your money and you hear that Ford is doing well, and will continue to do well.
  4. Indicate the number of shares you are buying, and the price of the shares you are buying for each company: Once you decide the companies and the amount for each company, determine how many shares you can buy. If Company 1 is selling for $42.16, then you may buy $10,000/ $42.16, or 237.19 shares. But you cannot buy a part of a share, so you decide to buy either 237 or 238. In this example you buy 237 shares, at $42.16 per share, investing $9,991.92. You won’t be able to buy exactly $10,000, or $5,000, or $25,000, but it will be relatively close.