1. Describe the Pre-Raphaelite movement.

2. Visit the Google Art Project: http://www.googleartproject.com/ (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.. Go to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Watch the media resource available at the right side of the portrait of theComtesse d’Haussonville, by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres. After listening to the comments on the sense of intimacy in the painting, comment on details of the portrait that contribute to the feeling of intimacy.

3. Compare the ways both artists used or discarded the Baroque treatment of light in their paintings. Compare the compositional techniques of arrangement, color, line, light, and scale used by both artists to enhance the dramatic (or even shocking) qualities of their paintings. (I uploaded the pictures)

4. What do the content of and circumstances surrounding Goya’s Black Paintings reveal about shifts in the nature of artistic production?

5. Compare David’s Oath of the Horatii and the Coronation of Napoleon . How does each work relate to the sociopolitical climate of the period? What devices does the artist employ in each work? Are the works successful in describing the event and the political moment?

6. Explain what Caspar David Friedrich’s Wanderer Above a Sea of Mist and Géricault’s Raft of the Medusa reveal about 19 th -century ideas about humankind and nature

#1 Let’s think about the fraud triangle and the three most prevalent reasons for fraud. They are opportunity, pressure, and rationalization.

In health care we hear often about fraudulent billing practices. The Medicare prospective payment system that was implemented in 1999 came about as a result of companies such as therapy companies taking advantage of the “old” cost based system that health care operated under up until that point in time. Under the old cost based system, health care entities got reimbursement based upon their costs (payments were made based on the previous year’s cost report that more or less rewarded companies for spending more money in their Medicare units). There were such uneven distribution of Medicare dollars from company to company, and there were those who took advantage and charged Medicare way too much money. Today we see fraud in improper billing practices such as upcoding in order to get more money when the medical record does not support the data.

In health care it is very important to make sure that documentation appropriately reflects patients’ medically necessary needs. In this way correct dollars are received for care given. Billing practices for maximum revenue are areas that could be subject to the fraud triangle, and because of this it’s important that documentation is continually audited and that staff gets good training.

Class: What are some processes you would have in
place, or what have you encountered, to be sure that documentation is accurate
so that appropriate revenue will be gained? Please discuss. 150 words.

#2 The Human Resources (HR) Department plays a big role in ensuring internal controls are in place. Segregation of duties is imperative to effective controls, and it’s up to HR to have policies in place to ensure employees are performing responsibly.

A company must have a sufficient amount of employees so that monitoring of accounting practices occur as scheduled, and delegation of responsibilities can happen as directed (Choi, Choi, Hogan, & Lee, 2013). When companies issue layoffs that effect staff vital to internal controls, then the likelihood is strong that the company’s control strength is weakened as the prospect of fraud rises. Not having enough employees and poor delineation of duties are the main staffing issues that affect internal controls.

Class: Since we know that adequate numbers of staff are required for effective internal controls, what are some things you might do in the event that your business experienced high staff turnover and for a period of time you worked with short staffing? Think about how you would keep your staff motivated when working through times of staff shortages. Please begin a discussion. 150 words

Instructions

Do not cut and paste the entire assignment. Just put the question number and your answer. Don’t forget to include your name on the top of your uploaded document.

1. Locate 18 U.S.C. § 3143 on WestlawNext. This statute pertains to bail under the Bail Reform Act of 1984 for someone who is pending sentencing or an appeal. Tip: you do not need to include the § sign to retrieve this statute. Second tip: make sure you are in “all federal” in the jurisdiction selection box next to the orange search box.

a. Provide the full and correct Bluebook citation for subsection (b), release or detention pending appeal by the defendant. Use the format I provided in last week’s IN.

b. Cases that pertain to this statute are grouped by topic, usually shown on the right. What is the title of the blue link that you would click on if you wanted to look up a bail application to the U.S. Supreme Court?

c. Once you click on that link, you’ll see at least two cases. Provide the full and correct Bluebook citation for the first case shown.

2. Let’s try some Maryland research.

a. Provide the full and complete Bluebook citation, including subsection, for the Maryland statute that provides the definition of the word “vending machine” for purposes of theft.

b. Provide the full and complete Bluebook citation, including subsection, for the Maryland statute that provides the maximum sentence for credit card theft.

c. Provide the full and complete Bluebook citation for the case, shown in Notes of Decisions for that statute, where a defendant received an impermissibly high sentence.

3. Look at the following citations. Notice the different reporters indicated. You should be able to tell me, using only the type of reporter indicated, what level of federal court likely produced the citation shown. Your choices are the U.S. Supreme Court, a Circuit Court of Appeals, or a U.S. District Court.

a.  9 F.3d. 1328  is from ____________________________

b.  48 F. Supp. 2d 212  is from _____________________________

c.  486 U.S. 1301  is from _____________________________

You are the sector highway patrol commander. Among the units under your command is a traffic homicide investigation unit. You notice that one of your traffic homicide investigators (TAIs) is acting sullen and withdrawn. You have observed him in both a professional and social setting. You know he is a terrific traffic homicide officer and that he has a loving and devoted family. You don’t believe the family situation is the problem and suspect it might be work related.

You review his last 90 days of casework and make some startling discoveries. In the past 30 days, he has responded to 14 traffic fatalities. The last six all involved children. You noticed that most were toddlers in the same age range of the officer’s own two sons. In one of the cases, a minivan flipped and burned with three young children inside. The very next case was an SUV that flipped over the median and crushed two children and their mother. The case following that was a family with three children on vacation. The father fell asleep at the wheel, crossed the center line, and hit a semi truck head-on, killing the entire family. The most recent was a school bus with a young child’s soccer team. They were rear-ended by a loaded dump truck, killing 7 children and putting 3 adults and 14 children in the hospital.

When you went to approach him, the officer told you to “leave him alone, he was alright.” This is not characteristic of him. You take the liberty of contacting his spouse and find that she is having the same problem with him a home, and that it is not from any domestic abuse.

Assignment Guidelines

• In 5–6 paragraphs, address the following:
  • Do you think that the officer is displaying symptoms of the onset of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)? Why or why not? Be specific.
  • What do you feel should be done in terms of rehabilitating this officer? Explain.
    • Consider issues like the employee assistance plan for the highway patrol. Consider various types of counseling and the legitimacy of removing the officer from road duty.
    • Will that help the situation or make it worse, given his attitude from your last talk with him?
  • What do you think are at least 2 potential outcomes if this behavior is not identified and dealt with? Explain.
  • What is the potential for this to become a chronic PTSD situation? Why?
• Post a new topic to the Discussion Board that contains your responses to the above questions.
• Comment on at least 2 other students’ posts.

Please watch the following video to help you answer your essay question.

Agnos, C., & Agnos, D. (Producers). (2014).

How wolves change rivers

[Video file]. Retrieved from

http://sustainablehuman.tv/remix/how-wolves-change…

Begin your essay with an introduction, and describe the process of how the presence or absence of wolves affects the shape of a river. Include in your discussion what community ecology is and how the level of biodiversity relates to interactions among organisms and the environment.

Using further research, do you think it would be a good or a bad thing to reintroduce wolves to the area where you live?

Discuss both sides of the issue, and explain why you do or do not agree. In your argument, explain how food webs shape species diversity and how keystone species, such as the wolf, play a vital role in the environment that shapes habitats and impacts biodiversity.

Conclude with a description of how ecology and biodiversity benefit human life and how human life negatively impacts the environment.

Make sure to use research and data to back up your opinions. Cite any outside information that is used throughout the text, and add references at the end of your essay using APA format.

A note about reliable sources: There is a lot of information on the Internet that is not accurate. Making sure you utilize reliable sources is vital. Good places for reliable scientific information are universities and colleges; government websites, such as NASA.gov

To search the Internet and to increase your chance of finding sources that are more reliable, add “edu” or “gov” to the end of

your search terms. For example, if you were searching for information on light usage, you would type the following terms into Google: “light usage edu” or “light usage gov.” You may also use sciencedaily.com in order to use their search engine within the website to find reliable scientific information.

Your essay must be at least three pages in length, be double-spaced, and use 12-point Times New Roman font. You must have a title page, introduction, body, conclusion, and reference page. You must also use three reliable sources for your paper that should be referenced in APA format and cited throughout your essay. At least one reference must come from the

The title and reference pages do not count toward the minimum length requirement.