Personal Perception Policy making

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Policymaking occurs in organizations and governments. How policies are made, approved and enforced can vary depending on the entity and those making the decisions. It is important to understand how policy-making works, and in this assignment you share what you have learned and provide examples.

Write a 700- to 1,050-word paper, describing your personal perception of policymaking in criminal justice. Identify any assumptions on which your perceptions are based. Be sure to answer the following questions:

  • How would you describe policy-making?
  • How would you describe policy analysis?
  • What role does research play in criminal justice policy making?
  • How do your perceptions of criminal justice policy making and policy analysis compare to the definitions in the readings?
  • What are 2 to 3 examples of criminal justice policies?

Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines.

Deliverable Length: All sections of final procurement plan project

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Complete Part 2 of the Procurement Plan Project. This consists of the Contract Closeout and Maintaining Supplier Performance sections of the Procurement Plan Project as well as a memo to the procurement officer for your organization.

  • The Contract Closeout section will briefly describe the contract closing process with suppliers.
    • How you will finalize payments to suppliers?
  • The Maintaining Supplier Performance section will have descriptions of the partnerships or alliances that your organization has with the suppliers.
    • What are the key performance indicators (KPIs) used?
    • Describe the methods that will be used to measure supplier performance.
    • Explain why you have chosen these measurements.
  • Use the template to compose a memo to the organizational procurement officer.
    • State why this plan should be used by the organization.
    • Explain how your plan aligns with the organizational strategy.

Make any final modifications to the Procurement Plan based on your instructor and peer feedback. Finalize the Table of Contents and the Reference sections of your Procurement Plan.

Please submit your assignment.

For assistance with your assignment, please use your text, Web resources, and all course materials.

Assignment 2: External and Internal Environments

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Using the corporation you chose from Assignment 1, examine its industry. Research the company on its own Website, the public filings on the Securities and Exchange Commission EDGAR database (http://www.sec.gov/edgar.shtml), in the University’s online databases, and any other sources you can find. The annual report will often provide insights that can help address some of these questions.

Write an eight to ten (4-6) page paper in which you:

  1. Choose the two (2) segments of the general environment that would rank highest in their influence on the corporation you chose. Assess how these segments affect the corporation you chose and the industry in which it operates.
  2. Considering the five (5) forces of competition, choose the two (2) that you estimate are the most significant for the corporation you chose. Evaluate how well the company has addressed these two (2) forces in the recent past.
  3. With the same two (2) forces in mind, predict what the company might do to improve its ability to address these forces in the near future.
  4. Assess the external threats affecting this corporation and the opportunities available to the corporation. Give your opinions on how the corporation should deal with the most serious threat and the greatest opportunity. Justify your answer.
  5. Give your opinion on the corporation’s greatest strengths and most significant weaknesses. Choose the strategy or tactic the corporation should select to take maximum advantage of its strengths, and the strategy or tactic the corporation should select to fix its most significant weakness. Justify your choices.
  6. Determine the company’s resources, capabilities, and core competencies.
  7. Analyze the company’s value chain to determine where they can create value using the resources, capabilities, and core competencies discussed above.
  8. Use at least three (3) quality references. Note: Wikipedia and other Websites do not quality as academic resources.

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.

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

  • Identify how the six segments of the general environment affect an industry and its firms.
  • Identify the five forces of competition.
  • Analyze the external environment for opportunities and threats that impact the firm.
  • Analyze the internal environment of a company for strengths and weaknesses that impact the firm’s competitiveness.
  • Use technology and information resources to research issues in business administration.
  • Write clearly and concisely about business administration using proper writing mechanics.

Attribution Theory and Performance

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Attribution Theory and Performance

Prior to beginning this assignment, be sure to read Chapter 4: Cognition, Learning, and the Environment, and read the article “Extending Attribution Theory: Considering Students’ Perceived Control of the Attribution Process”, the Instructor Guidance, and view the following website The Critical Thinking Community (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. (http://www.criticalthinking.org/).

For this written assignment, you will demonstrate your understanding of attribution theory. In essence, attribution theory states that individuals tend to make sense of (logically prescribe) situations by associating them to self, others, thoughts, feelings, or actions. This theory suggests that learners should consider why they do what they do, and what or who they are giving credit for both the victories and the failures. Further, this theory suggests that if a person believes that they are not good at something, they may attribute their unsuccessful outcomes to external factors, rather than to themselves. In contrast, if individuals have success, they more often may attribute their successes to internal factors.

Using your required resources to support, discuss the following:

  • Describe a time where you feel you have failed and blamed someone else: the teacher, the friend, a loved one. (Failure could be academic, relational, and/or organizational – loss of a job.)
  • Do you believe that you blamed external things to support a more stable version of your own self-image? (In other words, it could not be your mistake). If not, what other reasons might external variables be attributed for our own performance?
  • How do think stability and controllability affect performance attributions, based on our reading this week?
  • Why do you think that self-efficacy plays such a critical role in how we process our learning behaviors?
  • What strategies could be applied to utilize what we know about self-perception and attributions to increase your learning performance in the future? (Minimum of two strategies.)

Suggested template.

The Attribution Theory paper

  • Must be six double-spaced pages in length (not including title and references pages) and formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site..
  • Must include a separate title page with the following:
    • Title of paper
    • Student’s name
    • Course name and number
    • Instructor’s name
    • Date submitted
  • Must use headings and sub-headings. See example. (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.
  • Must use appropriate research methods (e.g. use of the Ashford library) and skeptical inquiry (http://www.criticalthinking.org/) to support the content inclusions.
  • Must begin with an introductory paragraph that has a succinct thesis statement. Visit the Ashford writing Center to clarify how to create a strong thesis statement and what it helps you to accomplish. You may also use the Thesis Generator (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.
  • Must address the topic of the paper with critical thought. For assistance with the critical thinking portion of the written assignment, please see the information included on the Critical Thinking Community website (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site..
  • Must end with a conclusion that reaffirms your thesis. The conclusion typically has two parts: the summary statement (one or two sentences that restate the thesis in a fresh way to reinforce the essay’s main idea) and the clincher (a final thought that creates a lasting impression for the reader).
  • Must use at least one scholarly source from the Ashford University Library, in addition to the required e-book.
  • Must document all sources in APA style, as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.
  • Must include a separate reference page that is formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center. If you are unsure how to create an APA style reference page, please visit the Citation and Reference page on the Ashford Writing Center website.

SOC 100

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Writing Assignment Overview In this Assignment, you will consider a social issue that interests you. It could be human freedom, sexuality, deviance, crime, social mobility, poverty, education, aging, or another similar issue. Within that general issue, you will select a specific hypothesis to evaluate. You will conduct library research to gather and critically evaluate evidence that bears on your hypothesis This assignment is completed in four (4) stages that build on each other. At each stage, you should keep the final stage in mind. Stage (and Week due) Point Value Description of Stage Grading criteria.

1. (Week 3) 50 Identifying the Hypothesis Hypothesis is stated in a clear manner.

2. (Week 5) 100 Outline and Preliminary List of References Content is provided for each component of the paper. A list of at least three (3) references is provided.

3. (Week 8) 120 Draft 1 Evaluated on content for each component, as well as writing skills, and use of citations and references.

4. (Week 10) 150 Final Version Evaluated on content for each component, as well as writing skills, and use of citations and references. In the final stage of this assignment, you will submit a three to five (3-5) page paper in which you: Specific Hypothesis. Introduce your paper by identifying the specific hypothesis you are evaluating in this paper. Applicable Sociological Concepts. Identify the sociological theories and terminology from the text that apply to your social issue Practical Implications. Discuss the value of sociological research into your issue. Determine whether or not there are (or would be) practical implications of sociological inquiry into this issue. Evidence. This is the most important part of the paper. Analyze at least two (2) lines of evidence that pertain to the hypothesis you are evaluating. Does the evidence support your hypothesis? For each type of evidence, consider possible biases and alternative interpretations. Conclusions. Draw conclusions based on the evidence that you have discovered. Does the evidence confirm or refute your hypothesis? Is the evidence sufficiently convincing to draw firm conclusions about your hypothesis?

Childhood Disorders Autism Spectrum Disorder

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Autism Spectrum Disorders are among the most pervasive mental disorders of childhood. Children and adolescents diagnosed with the autism spectrum disorders possess impairments in social communication and interaction, as well as, restricted and/or repetitive patterns of behavior, interest, or activities. As a future professional in the field, you might seek a variety of resources to ensure that the child or adolescent, as a member of a vulnerable population, receives the most appropriate level of care for assessment and diagnosis.

For this Discussion, consider the criteria for a diagnosis of an Autism spectrum disorder within children and adolescents. Also, think about how symptoms of other childhood disorders might complicate a diagnosis of an Autism spectrum disorder.

With these thoughts in mind:

Post by Day 3 an explanation of the various criteria for a diagnosis of an Autism spectrum disorder. Then, explain how the symptoms of other childhood disorders might complicate a diagnosis of Autism spectrum disorder. Provide an example.

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

Inquiry 3,4,5 in diferrent page please. thanks! Before 11:30 PM TONIGHT SEPT 24TH 2018

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-Inquiry 3-

Then, do these two things:

1. Building on your work from class today, respond to at least two of these questions. You can focus on the question you worked on in your group or choose a different one–it’s up to you!

  • How does MLK present his character and cultural outlook/worldview?
  • How does he involve the audience in the emotion of anger?
  • What agreed-upon values does he invoke? How does he do it?
  • Who are his audiences? What are his purposes throughout the speech?

2. Reflect on the process. Here are some questions to get you started:

  • What did you take away from our rhetorical examination of “I Have A Dream”?
  • What did you learn from MLK about rhetorical decision-making?
  • How might this new knowledge inform you as a writer/rhetor when you read, listen, speak, and write?
  • Who do you think you are now as a rhetor/writer?
  • Thoughts, feelings, connections, questions

-Inquiry 4–

Read/skim:

  • Wysocki, “The Multiple Media of Texts” (1-15)
  • McCloud, “The Vocabulary of Comics” (24-59)
  • BONUS: Wilson, Wyatt, & Alphona, “No Normal” [Ms. Marvel Vol. 1] OR any comic of your choice

Write:

  • Choose 1 principle you learned from Wysocki and write about how you see it at work in a text you have seen recently. In other words, do a mini rhetorical analysis. How is the author using multiple modes to appeal to their audience?
  • Do the same as above with a principle from McCloud. Use part of a comic (like Ms. Marvel) if you’d like.

Include a picture of each text that you discuss in your inquiry.

-Inquiry 5-

For this inquiry,

  • Read Phyllis Mentzel Ryder’s article “Beyond Critique: Global Activism and the Case of Malala Yousafzai” (~10 pages) (PDF under Files in the “Readings” folder on Canvas) (also downloadable here (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.).
  • Write in response to these mini prompts. To answer the prompts fully, spend time exploring your ideas. Give examples, tell stories from your life, and make connections to your life experiences, media you have seen (books, TV, movies, news, social media and other online content, etc.), our course content, and other courses you are taking/have taken.

  1. What are misconceptions that people have or have had about you or someone close to you (e.g. family and friends)? How have those misconceptions affected you or the people close to you?
  2. What negative conceptions about an aspect of your identity (e.g. linguistic, cultural, personality- or hobbies-related, etc.) have you encountered in your life? How have they affected you? How have you pushed back against those negative conceptions? What “counter-conceptions” or counter-narratives have you created about yourself or want to create about yourself? (If you don’t want to talk about yourself, feel free to respond to this prompt by writing instead about a person or a group of people you care about.)
  3. What did you learn from Adichie’s talk? OR, choose an idea, insight, or quote from “The Danger of the Single Story” that stands out to you and write your thoughts and reflections about it.
  4. What did you learn from Ryder’s analysis of Malala’s rhetoric? OR, Choose an idea, insight, or quote from “Beyond Critique: Global Activism and the Case of Malala Yousafzai” that stands out to you and write your thoughts and reflections about it.
  5. BONUS: What questions do you have now that you have read these two texts? What ideas, questions, or phenomena are you interested in? What do you want to explore further?

Discussion Board DHS Missions Preventing terrorism and enhancing security, law homework help

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Within the Discussion Board area, write 400–600 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.

The director sent an e-mail that requested you to conduct some research and provide an explanation of the terms that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) uses to define the following DHS missions:

  • Preventing terrorism and enhancing security
  • Managing U.S. borders
  • Administering immigration laws
  • Securing cyberspace
  • Ensuring disaster resilience

The director has requested an analysis and recommendation of which mission area is currently the most critical and where she should concentrate her efforts. You must ensure that your recommendation is fully justified in your explanation.

, The Tammany Philosopher, From His Rostrum – The New York County Court-House Bootlblack Stand – A

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For the Primary Document Analysis (PDA) papers this semester, you will select a single document or specified group of documents from the documents provided within each Unit’s PDA Assignment page. After reading your selected document please submit a written essay that:

1. Addresses the stated writing prompt(s) associated with the specific PDA assignment and selected documents.

2. Meets the stated MINIMUM length requirement for the associated writing prompt(s).

The Writing Assignments for this course should be written and submitted with the following formatting rules:

1. The essays should be Double-Spaced and written in Times New Roman font with a point size of 12.

2. The top, bottom, left, and right margins should all be the standard 1″ in size.

3. The single-spaced header on the first page should include your Name and Document # from which your analysis is drawn. There is no need for a header on any subsequent page. There is also no need for a Title. Please be aware that if you should decide to include in your submission a Title that this will not be counted towards your minimum length requirement.

4. You will be penalized for any submission that does not meet the stated minimum length requirement.

5. Because of the short length of these assignments, please avoid directly quoting the document unless it is absolutely essential to your argument. Instead, briefly paraphrase the passage(s) and focus instead upon providing your analysis and supporting your argumentation.

6. There is no need to provide a citation for the single document you are analyzing. However, if you have used outside sources beyond the document provided, please include citations using the MLA Format. This will include in-text citations and a Works Cited Page. The Works Cited Page should be on a separate page at the conclusion of your essay and will not count towards the minimum length requirement.

If you need any help with the above formatting guidelines or citing your sources, please do not hesitate to email me. A very good online resource for any college-level writing assignment is the Purdue Online Writing Lab (OWL).The following URL will lead you directly to their pages related to MLA citations: http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/01/

Finally, there should be no excuses for attempting to use the ideas and/or words of any of your sources and attempting to pass them off as your own. Plagiarism will not be tolerated under any circumstances. Simply citing your source(s) does not give you permission to copy them word-for-word unless they are being directly quoted and placed in quotation marks. Even attempting to adjust the sentence structure or altering a couple of words in a source will not absolve you of charges of plagiarism. The skill of paraphrasing (or putting a source’s words or ideas into your own words) is not a simple one to acquire.

Writing a business letter

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I want you to write a bussniess letter in this follwoing order,the bussniess letter would be to APA President about change in the teaching the diffrenece between men’s and women’s brain is just pysiological. because In my previous report, I presented evidence that men’s and women’s brain are similar according to the human anatomy. So since there is much argument about the psychological difference between men’s and women’s thinking Since I took more of a physiological side in that report, so I was thinking to address this letter to the psychological organization since I can discuss how biology explain that difference in thinking between men’s and women’s.

Business Letter Assignment

One of the most common documents written outside of school is the business letter, which may be a paper document or may be sent as an email. Your assignment has three parts.

The first is to identify a specific living person who is in a position to bring about a specific change that moves toward the position for which you argued in your report. They may be business owners or executives who can affect changes in their business that will affect employees or customers, politicians who can work towards enacting legislation that will affect the lives of citizens, or members of professional groups that can support change affecting the lives of professionals and the people affected by this work. You should write a short paragraph that explains why you have selected this particular person; that paragraph will be the starting point for a discussion board.

The second part of the assignment is to do some research on this person. This research should gather information that is relevant to the topic on which you will be writing. You may want to consider the goals of the organization or institution for which the person works; any pertinent actions that the organization has recently taken in regards to that position or their current posture to that topic; any statements that the person has made in the past about this topic or about similar topics. If personal details about the individual seem relevant, you may want to include them as well, but remember that this is not simply generic research on the person’s life. You should do a short write-up of your findings with a line or two on why each seems something you can use. This, again, will be part of a discussion board this week.

The third part of the assignment is the actual business letter, which will be given the separate grade indicated on the syllabus. This letter should ask the individual you have researched to take a specific action that moves toward the position for which you argued in your report. The letter should follow the format of the samples. Successful letters will create an argument that is intended specifically to persuade this particular individual, focusing on providing her or him with motivation for making these changes rather than on your own reasons for supporting this action.

Attached is the bussniess letter that I want one similar to it.