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Should all nurses be considered leaders? What characteristics of nurses make them leaders? How do your responses compare or contrast with the view of power according to servant leadership?

In the secular approach to leadership, there is an inherent belief that hard work will get you to the top and guarantee success. Think of a time in your professional life when this has proven to be true. What were the circumstances? How much influence did you have on the outcome? Based on the textbook, how do your responses compare to the views of servant leadership? How do your responses compare to the secular view of leadership?

You are in a place of influence in your professional life where you can help people be successful. Describe the relationship and what actions you have taken or could take to serve others. Based on the textbook, how does your response compare to the views of authority according to servant leadership? How does your response compare to the secular view of authority?

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A)

explore the foundations and history of qualitative research methods. You also will consider the unique characteristics that distinguish qualitative research from other forms of inquiry.

In 3–4 paragraphs, explain several dimensions of this paradigm that make qualitative research interesting and unique. Be sure to use the terminology you are learning (including but not limited to “phenomena”, “constructivist,” and “naturalistic”), and provide historical context.


Resource

Ravitch, S. M., & Carl, N. M. (2016). Qualitative research: Bridging the conceptual, theoretical, and methodological. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.

  • Chapter 1, “Qualitative Research: An Opening Orientation” (pp. 1–31)

Erickson, F. (2011). Chapter 3: A history of qualitative inquiry in social and educational research. In N. K. Denzin, & Y. S. Lincoln (Eds.), The SAGE handbook of qualitative research (4th ed., pp. 43–58). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.

Denzin, N. K., & Lincoln, Y.S. (2013). Chapter 1: Introduction: The discipline and practice of qualitative research. In The landscape of qualitative research (4th ed., pp. 1–44). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications. Retrieved from http://www.sagepub.com/sites/default/files/upm-binaries/17670_Chapter1.pdf

Yob, I., & Brewer, P. (n.d.). Working toward the common good: An online university’s perspectives on social change, 1-25.

Walden University. (n.d.). What kind of social change agent are you? Retrieved from
Review this website and take the social change quiz to complete your Major Assignment 2 for this week.

Walden University Library. (n.d.). Course guide and assignment help for RSCH 8310. Retrieved from http://academicguides.waldenu.edu/rsch8310
Use this website to search for books, encyclopedias, or articles based on the requirements for the Discussion and/or Assignment.

Document: Video Field Notes Guide (Word document)
Use this guide to help you as you take notes for your Scholar of Change video.

Document: Major Assignment 1: Developing a Research Topic for a Qualitative Study Overview and Guidelines (PDF)
Use this document to guide you through your Major Assignment 1 for this course.


B) explore topics in your discipline of interest to you that you want to research using a qualitative approach: Discipline of Interest

Based on your initial understanding of qualitative research, post a description of the topic you chose in terms of how it could be conceptualized as a qualitative study. Include:

  1. What is the phenomenon of interest?
  2. What experiences or contextual issues might influence how this phenomenon could be studied?
  3. In what setting(s) could a topic like this be explored?
  4. What connection do you have to this topic, and why do you think it is important to explore this as a qualitative study?
  5. What possibilities could the results of this research have for social change?

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Answer the BOLD question at the end. Answer does not need to exceed a few paragraphs.

Please review the arguments made by Hayden White, Jr. in “The Historical Text as Literary Artifact” (which explores the ways that supposedly non-fictional historical writing uses many of the same techniques as literary fiction).

White famously argued that “histories gain part of their explanatory effect by their success in making stories out of mere chronicles; and stories in turn are made out of chronicles by an operation which I have elsewhere called ’emplotment.’ And by emplotment I mean simply the encodation of the facts contained in the chronicle as components of specific kinds of plot structures, in precisely the way that [Northrop] Frye has suggested is the case with ‘fictions’ in general” (83).

White is not saying that “anything goes,” that the historian can insert just any old thing into a historical narrative; the story has to be consistent with the facts insofar as they are known. The historian cannot plausibly write a history in which George Washington drives a Toyota Corolla on his way from Valley Forge to pick up Nikki Minaj for a movie date. But insofar as the historian is putting the known facts into some mythic pattern (such as one of Northrop Frye’s mythoi), the historian is in fact writing a story. A special kind of story, subject to a special set of restraints, but a story nonetheless.

This is not true just of historians, either. Something similar happens when political strategists take the basic facts of (say) economic life and “spin” them into part of a larger narrative (in which, say, persistent high unemployment is a sign that we are on Hayek’s road to serfdom, part of a larger narrative about the inevitable failure of the welfare state, or whatever). It happens also when contemporary prophets of the Hal Lindsey variety take the bare facts of earthquakes and tornadoes and work them into a theological narrative of sin and redemption. This sort of “encodation” is everywhere.

Also, please review the arguments made by Annette Kolodny in The Land Before Her about the ways that descriptions of the New World landscape were not objective but in fact heavily influenced by gender.

Here’s the question: Have the theories of White and Kolodny helped you to notice things in Heart of Darkness and/or O Pioneers that you would not have seen otherwise? Can you give some examples?

Apollo Shoes Case, accounting homework help

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Review the Planning section, with emphasis on the Apollo Accounting and Control Procedures Manual and the Apollo Shoe Minutes. Complete the Internal Control audit section of the case.

Resources: Apollo Shoes Case 

Date: Sat, 19 JAN 2008 00:35:24 +0000
From: “Darlene Wardlaw” <DW@aow.cpa>
Subject: Purchasing Cycle Bridge Working Paper

I am glad that you don’t mind working on Saturdays.  Welcome to “Busy Season!”

Similar to what you did with the Revenue Cycle, I want you to prepare a bridge working paper for the audit of Apollo Shoes as of December 31, 2007, listing the major errors that could occur in the purchasing system and to describe the test of controls procedures for auditing related purchasing controls to determine whether reliable control exists.  I don’t think that Apollo has enough purchase transactions that we need to rely on the controls (in other words, we’ll look at them all), but we need to document our finding for our 404 work:

1.  In the first column, use an index number (S-# or W-#) to indicate potential strength or weakness.  If you have time, you may want to prepare a purchasing cycle flowchart.  Not required, but could be helpful.

2.  In the second column, describe the control activity (or lack thereof) that may serve to prevent, detect, or correct errors or frauds.  Understand that Apollo may or may not have the control activity in place.  If they do, we may test the control if that is cost-effective.  If they don’t, we can propose the control as a management letter comment.

3.  In the third column, describe the audit implications of the strengths/ weaknesses related to the control activities with respect to transactions or accounts reported in the financial statements (e.g., the presence of a properly completed purchase order check ensures that purchases are authorized).

4.  In the fourth column, describe how specifically how (recalculation, reperformance, inquiry and observation, etc.) you would test the control. 

5.  Finally, add a fifth column for compensating audit procedures.  If the control activity is not in place, or the control activity is in place but not effective, we need to determine what audit procedure (i.e., a compensating test) we could use to catch them.  (For example, we can use customer confirmations to test the validity of the transactions if we can’t rely on the client’s controls.)

DW

Legal Capstone – Type of Questions

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Your supervising attorney is representing Darrel Jones who is suing Bill Johnson for $10,000, for a business debt. They are both sole proprietors.

Darrel Jones claims he sold Bill Johnson 200 widgets in January of 2015 for $20,000 and only $10,000 has been paid, leaving $10,000 owed. Your supervising attorney has told you that Darrel knows this by memory, but has lost his records in a fire and his electronic records were not saved.

Darrel recalls that the widgets were delivered to Bill’s place of business in March, 2015, about the 15th, that they were all satisfactory, and that there were no complaints about them. An invoice was sent with the delivery.

Two payments were made, of $5,000 each, one on June 1, 2015 and one on Nov. 1, 2015. A statement was sent on December 1, 2015, which showed a balance due of $10,000. No dispute of the statement was ever received by Darrel.

These facts need to be verified or corrected. Your side also needs to find out which documents are available from the opposition to prove the case in court.

Darla Dare is a witness and has agreed to meet with you and your supervising attorney about the case. She was a former bookkeeper for Bill Johnson. Bill Johnson and his attorney have no objection to your side interviewing Darla and they have allowed her to review and copy all of Bill Johnson’s business records that show transactions with Darrel Jones.

Using only open ended questions, draft a series of questions that ask for the information about the debt from Darla Dare. Make this paper as short as you can, but make sure you ask for all the information.

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  • Explore the National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR) website: http://www.ninr.nih.gov/ Review their publication Bringing science to life: NINR strategic plan (2011, p. 7) to identify the current priorities for nursing research. Do you agree with the priorities or would you recommend addition or elimination of some of the priorities? What effect do the nursing research priorities have on nursing researchers?
  • What criteria must be met in order to consider a practice, evidence-based? Provide examples. Explain the role quality plays in evidence-based practice?
  • Based on the information you’ve learned to this point, write a research proposal that relates to the topics you chose for a previous assignment. Be sure to include the following information in your proposal:
    • Hypothesis
    • Theory
    • Design model
    • Method
    • Anticipated results
    • Potential Dissemination Avenues

The assignment should be between 1500 and 2000 words in length and contain at least two scholarly sources, in addition to the textbook and provided material. Please submit your assignment in one APA formatted document.

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Please follow these instructions carefully.

Table shows instructions
We begin our final research project, which combines threads of all the subjects we’ve covered this semester. You will design a small country that fosters the greatest happiness for the greatest number of people.

  • The correct approach or mode is expository, though you will use argumentation to present your evidence.
  • It is due at the end of Week 8. No late work is accepted. Upload it through Canvas to Turnitin by 11:59 pm of the last Sunday of class.
  • Your APA-style research essay will begin with a Title Page and end with References.
  • I provide a sample of APA formatting. Download and use it. It is the example against which your paper will be graded. You may use it as a template. Note that it includes additional info that your final papers will need, such as an abstract.
  • As usual for APA essays in our class, use Times New Roman font, size 12. Standard 1″ margins. Double-spaced. Page numbers inserted in upper right hand corner. Running head capitalized in upper left hand corner; the running head is an abbreviated version of your title.
  • You must also create (not copy/paste) an original graph as a visual aid in your essay. In Word: Insert > Chart.
  • Use at least five sources; three should come from Coastline’s Online Library. See below for a reminder about how to use this.
  • You may use and quote the articles linked in this week’s Modules.

ESSAY TOPIC: Design a small country that fosters the greatest happiness for the greatest number of people.

  • To do so, you’ll create policies and rationalize them using evidence from your research.
  • You’ll need to define clearly your terms (happiness, greatest number, etc.).
  • Organization: Your essay will have an introduction paragraph, several body paragraphs, and a conclusion paragraph–a beginning, middle, and end.
  • Total length (including title page, abstract, your content, and the References page) = 10 pages.
  • Each body paragraph must include at least one source from research.
  • Your body paragraphs will zoom in on five or more national interests. Examples include: class, race, ideologies (belief systems, religions, and so on), urban design, architecture, transportation, renewable resources, leadership / system of government, arts (painting, literature, music, film), military, cuisine, physical / mental health of citizens, entertainment, invented history, scientific innovation / research, technology, health care, family structure, economic policies, business practices, imports / exports, geographic location, topography, natural habitat…. and any others you can think of.
  • To reiterate: You are creating a country. Although a research paper, this is also a form of creative writing. Pick five or more national interests on which to focus. Support your proposed policies with concrete evidence from EBSCO articles and other online research.
  • For inspiration refer to the linked essays on happiness and society.
  • Be sure to create an outline, organize your ideas into sections, and use transitions to signal shifts from section to section.
  • Have fun! Strut your stuff. You’re strong, capable writers by now.

Using Coastline’s Online Library–reminder about how to access

a. For your final project, at least three sources must be from the Online Library.

  • First, go to http://www.coastline.edu/library/ebooks-and-databasesLinks to an external site.
  • Second, scroll down and click on “General / Multidisciplinary / Academic Journal Databases.”
  • You now have links to three major databases:
    • Academic Search Complete (also known as EBSCOhost)
    • ProQuest Research Library
    • JSTOR
    • You may also use any other research databases available in the Online Library.
  • After you click on the link to one of the databases, you’ll then be asked to enter your MyCCC or District user name and password.
  • If you get stumped, try as many different databases and variations on search terms as you can. Get creative.
  • After you’ve found at least three sources from the Coastline Online Library, you may then use Google or another search engine to locate additional reliable sources.

b. If you have questions about the Online Library, contact our knowledgeable and helpful librarian, Elizabeth:

  • library@coastline.edu
  • 714-696-1573

c. If you are unable to log in to the Coastline Online Library due to sign-in problems, then please view this video: https://youtu.be/DGuzHPe5hWs (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.Next, contact District IT and ask the rep to help you with the password for the Coastline Library Database:

  • District IT Help Desk phone = 714.438.8111
  • District IT email = itservicedesk@cccd.edu

Final Research Project Rubric: My Ideal Society
/3 Format: cover page, abstract, references, margins, spacing, font, header
/4 Organization: intro, body, conclusion; topic sentences, transitions
/5 Mechanics: grammar, punctuation, syntax, spelling
/8 Argumentation: integration of sources, graph, detail, depth of thought, fluidness
/20 TOTAL

the Minimum Wage Debate, argumentative essay help

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Reflect: Based on the MINIMUM WAGE DEBATE,

you will need to use critical thinking skills to thoroughly understand

how this topic can be a global societal problem and determine some

logical solution(s) to the problem.

Write: This Argumentative Essay ROUGH DRAFT (MINIMUM OF 5 PAGES) will

present research relating the critical thinker to the modern, globalized

world. In this assignment, you need to address the following items in

separate sections with new headings for each:

  • Identify the global societal problem within the introductory paragraph and conclude with a thesis statement that states your proposed solution(s) to the problem.
  • Describe background information on how that problem developed or came into existence. Show why this is a societal problem, and provide perspectives from multiple disciplines or populations so that you fully represent what different parts of society have to say about this issue.
  • Construct an argument supporting your proposed solution(s). Be sure to consider multiple disciplines or populations so that your solution shows that multiple parts of society will benefit from this solution. Provide evidence from multiple scholarly sources as evidence that your proposed solution is viable.
  • Interpret statistical data from at least three, peer-reviewed scholarly sources. Do this by discussing the validity, reliability, and any biases; identifying the strengths and weaknesses of these sources; and pointing out limitations of current research and attempting to indicate areas for future research. You may even use visual representations such as graphs or charts to explain statistics from sources. Evaluate the ethical outcomes that result from your solution. Be sure to provide at least one positive ethical outcome as well as at least one negative ethical outcome that could result from your solution, and explain at least two ethical issues related to each of those outcomes. It’s important to consider all of society.

    • Develop a conclusion as the last paragraph(s) of

    the essay, starting with rephrasing your thesis statement and

    then presenting the major points of the topic and how they

    support your argument.

    • Must include in-text citations from at least 5 scholarly sources. Be sure to integrate your research rather than simply inserting it.
    • Must document all sources in APA style as outlined here and here.
    • Must have no more than 15% quoted material in the body
      of your essay based on the Turnitin report. Reference list will be
      excluded from the Turnitin originality score.
    • Must include a separate reference page that is formatted according to APA style

    Criminal Justice Research and Reputable Resources

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    Introduction:

    To put into context the utility of social research in the criminal justice field, it is important to examine popular topics in criminology. Where might you see research used in the workplace? What types of research are used? What journals and resources are useful and reliable? By reviewing a selection of articles published in prestigious journals and various Internet content, you will appreciate the difference between reputable and non-reputable resources in research.

    Instructions:

    For your main post, locate two reputable journal articles through Internet research and one non-reputable article on the Internet that focus on issues of a single general criminological or criminal justice issue, such as criminology or crime and delinquency. Then respond to the following:

    1. Analyze the three articles selected, highlighting which articles should be considered reputable, and why.
    2. Explain your understanding of science versus pseudoscience in the context of reputable research resources.
    3. Discuss whether the articles you selected contain science or pseudoscience.
    4. Determine what research methods are used in the selected articles, whether they are used by a criminal justice agency or scholar-practitioner, and why.
    5. Discuss whether the articles selected are descriptive, evaluative, explanatory, or exploratory. Include in your discussion what characteristics make them so, and what makes the method used the best fit for the study over other research methods.

    Special Instructions:

    Create a 1 page essay in APA format according to the instructions above. Use 3 journal articles for sources. Be sure that 2 sources are reputable, and 1 source is non-reputable. Utilize in-text citations.

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    Please do not copy from others sources, such as course hero, etc. read carefully below I am going to be running plagiarism report and cite after the sentences and put in the references, make sure that references can be found. read below ( I am going to provide the chapter in MS word document attach). Also make sure that the powerpoint has speaker notes.

    Topic 1.

    Resources: The Art and Science of Leadership, Ch. 3

    As a leader, you often need to display or clarify a concept. A clearly defined presentation may effectively be used to include pertinent information and offer a visual model of ideas. For this assignment, you will create a Powerpoint Presentation that explains leadership theories.

    Research the following five leadership theories and include these in in your Powerpoint Presentation.

    • Trait theories of leadership
    • Behavioral theories of leadership
    • Contingency models of leadership
    • Skills approaches to leadership
    • Situational methods of leadership

    Develop the definition and characteristics of various leadership theories and approaches to leadership (trait leadership, behavioral leadership, contingency leadership, skills leadership and situational leadership). Use one slide per theory and example (you may use 2 slides per theory if needed).

    Provide one or more examples to support the definition or characteristics of each form of leadership.

    Write out your explanations using speaker notes at the bottom of your presentation.

    Format your presentation consistent with APA guidelines.

    Topic 2.

    Your company’s Vice President of Human Resources has approached your team for assistance in recruiting and developing your organization’s future leaders. 60% of your company consists of millennials, and your team has been charged with how to successfully increase the number of millennials as leaders in your organization. At this time, senior management is reluctant and uninformed as to how they should promote the millennials as leaders. This first step is to create a plan.

    Write a 525- to 700-word summary in which you:

    • Examine the best practices that your team can cultivate to enhance the number of millennial leaders.
    • Explain how you would present this information to senior managers in your organization.

    Cite a minimum of two references other than the text.

    Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines

    Topic 3

    Create either a 2- to 4-minute podcast, a 15- to 20-slide Microsoft® PowerPoint® presentation, a 1- to 2-minute video, or other presentation on the interaction and influence among leadership tactics according to the following criteria: (POWERPOINT ON THIS ONE)

    • Explain power and compare how it relates to leadership
    • Analyze the five sources of power
    • Summarize the relationship between influence and power
    • Determine how relationships between leaders and staff affect influence and power

    Cite a minimum of two references other than the text.

    Format your assignment consistent with APA guidelines.