Silver Linings Playbook

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answers to questions after reading the book

DQ 5 151-181

  • How does Caitlin try to protect pat? In your opinion is that protection a good thing or a bad thing? Why?
    • Instead of telling Jake his worries, what does Pat tell Jake? Why do you believe Pat made this substitution? What effect could this substitution have on the brother?
    • How does Pat help Cliff?
    • What was in the box Pat found in the attic?
    • How does Jeanie respond to her confrontation with Pat?
    • Describe the comments made about Terrell Owens. What do these comments suggest to Pat?
    • How does Pat respond to the T.O. hatred at the tailgate? Why do you think this is Pat’s response?
    • What does Pat give Tiffany?
    • Summarize Tiffany’s letter to pat
    • How does Pat respond to the letter? Discuss both his emotions and his decision.

  • DQ 6 182-231

    • Discuss how Jeanie, Cliff, Ronnie, and Jake respond to Pat’s treatment of the Philadelphia Eagles?
    • Pat ask Cliff and his family to attend the recital. Why is Pat so passionate about inviting people to the dance recital?
    • Pat describes Tiffany’s dance as crying on page 207. Describe this analogy. What does it mean?
    • Describe the dance performance: how did Pat feel? How did Tiffany feel? Who attended? What was the outcome?
    • According to Nikki’s letter, why did she and Pat separate?
    • According to Nikki’s letter, how does she feel about reconciling?
    • In letter 4 Nikki says, “this worldview you [Pat] have developed is fragile.” What does she mean by this? Do you agree or disagree with her opinion?
    • In letter 5 how does Pat connect the Eagles to he and Nikki?
    • How does the movie analogy reasserts itself in letter 5/
    • What request does Pat make of Nikki in letter 5?

  • DQ 7 231-262

    • In the letter 6 a gold ring is discussed. What is the significance of this ring? Is Nikki Pat’s gold ring? Why or why not?
    • Pat Sr. does not accompany his family to church. When Pat and his mother return from church how does Pat feel about his Mom? Is this the same or different from how he felt when his mother brought him home from the hospital? Why?
    • Despite letter 8, Pat goes to the hill. In your opinion why does Pat return to the hill? How does this relate to the book’s title?
    • When getting off the train on page 243 Pat remembers the train stop. How is this memory foreshadowing?
    • How does Pat respond to his meeting on the hill?
    • What happens to Pat after he flees the hill?
    • After being released from the hospital, how does Pat feel about his relationship with his family? How does Pat feel about himself?
    • What conflict do Pat and Cliff have about life as a movie? Who do you agree with and why?
    • How does Pat’s family feel about Tiffany?
    • Why do you think Pat asks about Tiffany?

psychology, multiple choice assignment help

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Question 11

 

A child who says, “I goed there” illustrates telegraphic speech.

A.

B.

Question 12

 

Chomsky argues that an innate ____ allows us to create an endless number of sentences.

A.

B.

C.

D.

Question 13

 

What is one criticism of Chomsky’s theory of language?

A.

B.

C.

D.

Question 14

 

A common finding in case studies of creative people is:

A.

B.

C.

D.

Question 15

 

You are watching your two-year-old nephew and are amazed how quickly he can learn concepts and objects. According to Module 14, what accounts for this?

A.

B.

C.

D.

question 16
The ideas of surface structure, deep structure, and transformational rules are part of:

A.

B.

C.

D.

Question 17

 

According to Chomsky, the difference between surface structure and deep structure has to do with:

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B.

C.

D.

Question 18

 

Developing a list of essential characteristics is important in the exemplar theory of concepts.

A.

B.

Question 19

 

When we correctly combine phonemes into meaningful combinations of sounds and words, we are using:

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B.

C.

D.

Question 20

 

The brain stores different concepts in the same area.

A.

B.

Office Art Memo

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The Project Paper focuses on a suggested topic related to art, architecture, history, music, or literature. The project will reflect your views and interpretation of the topic.

Read the topic carefully. Write a four (4) page paper (1,000 words) that responds to each of the items described in the topic.

Support your ideas with specific, illustrative examples. If there are questions or points associated with your chosen topic, be sure to answer all of the listed questions and address all of the items in that topic. If your topic asks you to do several things related to the topic, be sure to do each of the things listed.

While some of the topics tend to lend themselves toward particular writing genres, you are not restricted to the specific format suggested for the individual topic. For example, you may do an “interview,” a “proposal,” a “letter,” a “short story,” a “blog,” an “essay,” an “article,” or any other written genre for almost any of the topics. The project is intended to be fun as well as informative, so feel free to be creative with the delivery of your information.

Use at least two (2) sources besides the textbook, which counts as one (1) source.

Office Art Memo. Memorandum.
Your boss, who knows you have been taking a humanities class since he pays for your tuition reimbursement, has tasked you with managing the art budget for your company, expecting you to choose various pieces of art for the new corporate offices.  (Note: Replicas of the works are acceptable since they are more cost-efficient and you are working on a budget.)  Include the following:

  1. Identify three (3) examples of 19th century Impressionist painting or sculpture and three (3) Post-Impressionist works. Explain how the six (6) pieces of art fall into these two (2) styles.
  2. In a memo, describe the appearance of your six (6) choices to your CEO so he
    or she will know what the art looks like and where it would be placed in the
    corporate offices.
  3. Explain why each piece is considered to be historically significant.
  4. Explain how each piece “fits” your company’s overall (or desired) corporate image. Keep in mind that a piece of art is supposed to “say” something about the owner, so describe what would these pieces of art say about your company.

Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch
margins on all sides; references must follow APA Style format.

Special Assessment Leadership

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1-2 paragraphs answering the questions at the bottom.

A special assessment needs to be performed because If leadership is only relying on a SPACE analysis, leadership would not be addressing faculty or administrators. Also, the best way to gauge if an organization is healthy or not is to review its financials. If there is adequate money coming in to cover staff and services, with some reserve for emergencies the organization can be reasonably confident that it is financially healthy.

For example, if a non-profit hospital makes a decision about purchasing a new MRI machine, but does not consult the administrators of that department leadership could order an inadequate MRI machine that would not meet the needs of the hospital. It is always important to get the input of departments that you are making a decision about. Also, alternate ways of equipment acquisition should be reviewed such as leasing.

After and organization undergoes a needs assessment. What should be the next steps they should take in order to continue to improve their organization in the future? If anything at all?

What if therapy did not improve an individual’s well-being and mental health, but rather the exact opposite?

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FIRST, watch The Dark History Of Gay Conversion Therapy and then Coming Out to My Dad, the Founder of Conversion Therapy (by Richard Socarides).

HOWEVER, because there is more recent data than presented in the videos you will need to research the answers to the questions in the prompt below. You must use reputable and credible sources.

Please follow this format & include the questions.

  1. What is conversion therapy? What is another name for conversion therapy? What does it assume? (4 points)

MINIMUM: 4-5 substantive sentences

Cite at the end of a sentence and/or paragraph.

2. What methods are used/have been used in conversion therapy? (6 points)

Describe the methods in complete sentences. 4 methods minimum

MINIMUM: 8-10 substantive sentences

Cite at the end of a sentence and/or paragraph.

3. What stand does the American Psychological Association (APA) take on conversion therapy? Why? (3 points)

MINIMUM: 4-5 substantive sentences

Cite at the end of a sentence and/or paragraph.

4. Conversion therapy is legal in how many states as of 2017? Who, specifically, does the law apply to? List the states where it’s NOT legal. (3 points)

MINIMUM: 3 substantive sentences

Cite at the end of a sentence and/or paragraph.

HR writing assignment

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Using the organization that your professor has preapproved, synthesize the organization’s readiness for change. Evaluate whether or not to implement your new program, policy, practice, or procedure. Use a tablet, smartphone, laptop, desktop, or traditional video recorder to record a maximum of a five to seven (5-7) minute dynamic video on the topics detailed below. Alternatively, you may submit a four to six (4-6) page paper instead of the video submission.

Note: If you are using a tablet or smartphone, you will need to email the video file to yourself, then save it to a computer in order to upload to Blackboard. You may want to upload your video to a file sharing service, such as Dropbox, if your email will not let you send a large video file. Dropbox is accessible from all smartphones and tablets from the Dropbox app.

Once you are ready to upload your video to Blackboard, click here to view the “Student Video Assignment Submission” video tutorial in the “Creating a Presentation for Your Course” playlist.

Please use the following naming convention in the popup window for your video once it is finished uploading:

Title: Your First Name, Your Last Name – Managing Organizational Change

Tags: HRM560, Organizational Change

Description: First Name, Last Name – HRM560 Assignment 2 (Date Uploaded ex. 11-14-2014)

Prepare and present a video that is a maximum of five to seven (5-7) minutes OR write a four to six (4-6) page paper in which you:

  1. Describe the company in terms of industry, size, number of employees, and history.
  2. Analyze in detail the current HR practice, policy, process, or procedure that you believe should be changed.
  3. Formulate three (3) valid reasons for the proposed change based on current change management theories.
  4. Appraise the diagnostic tools that you can use to determine an organization’s readiness for change. Propose two (2) diagnostic tools which you can utilize to determine if the organization is ready for change. Defend why you believe the diagnostic tools selected are the best choice for diagnosing change in the organization.
  5. Using one (1) of the diagnostic tools you selected, assess the organization’s readiness for change.
    1. Provide results of the diagnostic analysis
    2. Explain the results
  6. Interpret whether or not the organization is ready for change. Substantiate your conclusion by referencing current change management theories.

Note: If you choose to submit a video presentation, please also submit a one (1) page summary of your presentation.

If you choose the written paper, your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:

  • Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references must follow APA or school-specific format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.
  • Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required assignment page length.

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

  • Evaluate an organization’s readiness for change.
  • Analyze diagnostic models relevant to various aspects of the change management process.
  • Use technology and information resources to research issues in managing organizational change.
  • Write clearly and concisely about managing organizational change using proper writing mechanics.

Business Policies and Strategies

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Business Policies and Strategies 

Part 1 Reading task Coulter, chap. 2 & 4

 Write 500–600 words that respond to the following
questions with your thoughts, ideas, and comments. This will be the foundation
for future discussions by your classmates. Be substantive and clear, and use
examples to reinforce your ideas:

You plan to hold a weekly breakfast meeting with your team
of strategic planners to practice assessing an industry. For the upcoming
week’s breakfast meeting, you told your team that they should be prepared to
discuss the business environment or industry analysis of the digital music
distribution industry.

  • Identify
    the major players in the industry, and how they are each currently
    competing.
  • Discuss
    at least three current issues that this industry faces; they could be
    favorable or unfavorable to the industry
  • Which
    of the major competitors has the best chance of survival, given the issues
    identified?

Part 2

Prepare, in a table format, a SWOTT analysis on any real
company in the auto industry. As you prepare your analysis, it must be based on
the following definitions for strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats,
and trends.

  • Strengths: These are
    characteristics of a company that are stronger than its competitors are.
    If a company is good at something, but its competitors are as well, then
    it is not strength.
  • Weaknesses: These are
    characteristics of a company that are weaker than its competitors are. If
    a company is weak at something, but its competitors are as well, then it
    is not a weakness.
  • Opportunities: These
    are issues that are external to a company that can affect the company and
    its competitors in a favorable way.
  • Threats: These
    are issues that are external to a company that can affect the company and
    its competitors in an unfavorable way.
  • Trends: These
    are developing opportunities and threats.

Deliverable Format

The table should have columns with the following labels:

  • Strength
  • Weakness
  • Opportunity
  • Threat
  • Trend

It should have at least eight rows for factors that are
important to the success of a firm in that particular industry including:

  • Type
    of Corporation
  • Federal
    Regulations and Liability
  • Price,
    Cost, Supply and Demand
  • Code
    of Conduct
  • Globalization,
    Global Trade and Global Strategy
  • Labor,
    Employment Law, and Discrimination
  • Economic
    Conditions (including Monetary Policy, Inflation, and Recession)
  • Contracts
    and Intellectual Property

Cells should have one to two sentences of explanation as to
why each has been identified as a strength, weakness, opportunity, threat, or
trend. Not every identified factor will have its entire row of cells annotated.

Catholic Church, using Natural Law Theory, Philosophy Final : Four Essay Questions

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Each answer should be about 750 words long. The text each question refers to is Ethics: Theory and Contemporary Issues, 8th Edition, by MacKinnon and Fiala. You can use your general knowledge and research if you are unable to access the text over the internet. I can go in later and add some information from the textbook after a majority of the questions are answered.
  1. The Catholic Church, using Natural Law Theory, claims that there is a seamless web between the questions of euthanasia, abortion, and the death penalty, such that they oppose all three.  Natural Law theory is also employed in the debate about homosexuality, which the Catholic Church opposes, as well.  Others we have studied would challenge a natural law approach, claiming that different principles should be employed, and that these are separate issues about which people could take different positions.  Explain the disagreement, using the arguments in the text.

  2. The debate about affirmative action for African-Americans raises issues about distributive justice, and the debate about punishment, prisons, and the death penalty raises issues about just punishment, particularly as it relates the problem of racism in America.  Both are issues of justice.  Are these related issues, or not?  Explain the reasons for your answer based on the argument in the text.

  3. Is there a correlation between deterrence, retributive justice, restorative justice, and Natural Law theories, as discussed in the debate over punishment and the death penalty in our text, and the various theories of ethics that we studied in the first half of the semester?  Explain.

  4. The problems related to biotechnology and bioengineering could be seen as simply a question of utilitarian calculations about the effects of technology.  However, they could also be seen as involving questions of Virtue Ethics, Natural Law theory, or even, possibly feminism and deontology.  Explain.

Finance Discussion

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Corporate bond analysis

Read the articles. These articles contain the examples of the bond analysis.

  1. Intel: Analysis Of Its Recent Bond

https://seekingalpha.com/article/4088186-intel-analysis-recent-bond

2) Collect 8.1% YTM With Men’s Wearhouse, July 2022 Bonds

https://seekingalpha.com/article/4109855-collect-8_1-percent-ytm-mens-wearhouse-july-2022-bonds

3) Tune In To 107% YTM With Cumulus Media May 2019 Bonds

https://seekingalpha.com/article/4110796-tune-107-percent-ytm-cumulus-media-may-2019-bonds

4) The Bond Market Reacts: Equifax Inc.

https://seekingalpha.com/article/4107832-bond-market-reacts-equifax-inc

  1. Hertz and Avis Bonds Slide as Used-Car Prices Come Down

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-04-18/hertz-avis-bondholders-aren-t-gentle-on-rentals-as-debt-slides

Your assignment:

You are expected to make your own contribution in a main topic as well as respond with value added comments to at least two of your classmates as well as to your instructor.

Please also note that your answers should be written in your own words. Don’t use quotes from the articles.

For this week discussion you will be using

http://www.barrons.com/public/page/bonds.html?mod=BOL_Nav_INV_hps

Choose one company from the list.

In your initial response you should answer the question: If you are an investor who is looking for a bond to invest to, are you going to buy a bond that you chose? You should develop a specific recommendation, with supporting rationale to explain your answer.

Reflection – the students also should include a paragraph in the initial response in their own words reflecting on specifically what they learned from the assignment and how they think they could apply what they learned in the workplace.

In your responses to other students you should answer the question: Would you prefer to buy the bond issued by the company chosen by another student? You should develop a specific recommendation, with supporting rationale to explain your answer.

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You can choose to revise and resubmit either unit paper 1 or 2 from this semester. When

choosing which paper to revise, consider which essay interested you most and which needs the

most work. Clearly, this may not be the same paper.

Whichever paper you choose, you need to try something more complicated than a

cleaning-up of the grammar and other sentence level concerns (although they are a part of

revision). A revision is quite literally a “re-seeing” of a piece of writing. Maybe something

you’ve read in another class has had an impact on your thinking on one of the earlier papers

you’ve written. Maybe comments I’ve written or comments from tutors, or class workshops

affect the way you see your argument. You might seek new, different pieces of evidence to

support your claims. Perhaps your revision will be primarily structural or stylistic; your essay

might benefit from a change in tone or a reordering of paragraph structure.

However you go about the revision, be sure that you’re not merely making sentence-level

changes. Also, don’t just throw in an extra paragraph without looking at how an addition affects

the logic or style of the paper as a whole. I can’t guarantee you that the change will “work out”

in the sense that the product itself, the revised paper, will deserve a higher grade. What I can

promise is that a clear, genuine attempt at revision will not give you a lower grade than your

original grade. A paper with only sentence-level grammar or spelling changes, however, will

receive the same grade as the original. I can also guarantee you that the experience of revisiting

an older piece of writing will be beneficial in the long term for you as a thinker and a writer.

Aside from the revisions mentioned above, the developments you make to your paper will vary

from person to person. You may need to:

Add or rephrase your title

clarify/strengthen your claim

address the “so what” question (i.e., explore the significance of your claim) in the intro

and/or conclusion

reorganize paragraphs so that the ideas presented therein work to support your claim

without repeating the same point

produce transitions between paragraphs (if you can’t come up with a transition between

paragraphs, it may be a sign that the paragraphs don’t belong together and need to be

reorganized)

craft clear topic sentences for paragraphs (remember, a topic sentence should not simply

summarize a plot element or idea; it needs to make a particular claim that the rest of the

paragraph supports with evidence)

add textual evidence (bring in quotes and/or specific examples from the

readings/film/personal experience)

analyze the evidence already present in the paper (i.e., explain

how

the quote or anecdote

illustrates the point you’re making and

in what way

it’s relevant to your larger claim)

reframe your conclusion (remember a conclusion should do more than repeat what

you’ve said in the paper; there can certainly be an element of re-emphasizing your claim,

but the conclusion is also your chance to make a final impact on your reader by giving

them something to think about or emphasizing the significance of what you’re saying)

correct any mistakes in your use of MLA citation style (add a Works Cited page if you

didn’t do so originally)

You’re not expected to address every issue in the paper during this revision—to do so

would be a much longer revision process; instead, try to tackle the most significant issues in

the paper.

As you begin to make changes to the graded document that contains my comments in the

margins, you will need to make sure that you’ve turned on the “Track Changes” tool in

Microsoft Word or Pages. This tool does just what its name says: keeps track of changes and

revisions you make in your essay.

You MUST use this tool in your final revision of either

your Unit 1 or 2 paper.

I will not read or grade revised essays that do not utilize Track

Changes.

Just as important be sure that you save the file as a new name. I recommend that you just

add the words “Track Changes” to the existing file name. You need to do this so that you

have the original copy with my comments on it and also your track changes document as

well.

Directions to Turn On Track Changes:

1—Click “Review” and then click on Track Changes so that “Yes” appears

2—Then move the cursor into the paragraph to test that you’ve turned on Track Changes and just

type any two random letters. The letters should show up in a new color. If the letters do not show

up in a new color then be sure to click “On” again and try the same test again.