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The purpose of Part 2 is to examine the decision criteria, alternatives, and assumptions of your problem statement. Assignment Instructions  1. Work with the same assigned peer as you did in Part 1.  2. Think about ways that your group can address the problem statement. » Remember, the problem statement should reflect the collective group’s position.  3. Collaborate with your peer to analyze and respond to the following prompts individually, using your own words in your responses: » What can be done for the least cost, and as quickly as possible, to address the target issue and improve the health of the affected people group(s)? » Where might each learner’s individual biases be present in considering possible interventions? » What is the rationale for the selected approach to address this problem? » How realistic are the implementation plan and any preferred alternative? » Where do you agree or disagree with your peer? Identify differences and explain why.  Assignment Requirements  1. Identify two additional (2) peer-reviewed scholarly articles to cite and support your writing for this part of the assignment. In general, non-scholarly claims are also acceptable for this assignment, if sources are cited.  2. Submit using APA formatting.  3. Include a thesis statement and use sources to support your claims. Conclude with a summary of the collaboration process, the value, benefits, and the ways that you might have been challenged to rethink your assumptions or biases.

3. Studies clearly show that Aboriginal offenders continue to be over-represented in our prisons despite government initiatives that strongly encourage judges to consider non-custodial sentences for Aboriginal offenders. Briefly discuss the following issues as they relate to Aboriginal inmates:   i)What is Correctional Services of Canada currently doing with respect to culturally sensitive programming within our institutions? ii)What are healing lodges and what do they attempt to achieve? iii)What suggestions do you have in order to achieve better results for this sub-population of Canadian inmates? Chapter 13 Page 401+ Indigenous offenders ppt & notes

Your analysis should be based on the episode This Is Us Season 1 Episode 16 Recap: William Dies in Memphis and Master of None Season 1 Episode 1: Plan B and Episode 2: Parents. I’ve attached a file with all the specific guidelines. Your essay should be a critical analysis of the shows, not simply summaries, and must answer the following questions in 4-5 pages.  Specific questions to address in your essay:   a. Briefly identify and describe your two selected shows. Discuss how each show portrays families and their structures – i.e., ‘nuclear family’ as ideal? Are other family structures presented in positive, negative, or neutral ways?  b. Compare and contrast how the shows portray issues of gender. To what extent are gender roles presented as traditional or egalitarian? In what ways are gender expectations discussed or reinforced? Be sure to provide specific examples. c. Compare and contrast how the shows portray race-ethnicity and social class. How diverse, inclusive, and realistic are these portrayals? – compare with information in the textbook on American families. To what extent are these portrayals positive, negative, or neutral (i.e., do they reinforce positive or negative stereotypes)? What particular groups or experiences are emphasized, and what is missed?  d. How are the shows’ depictions different in the drama compared to the comedy? How might these shows influence their audiences?  *** Note that production and broadcast dates vary – you should take into account the time period of the production (when it was made and released) and the time period portrayed in the shows (i.e., in the present or set in an earlier era). You should discuss the historical context and its relation to the images of families, gender, race-ethnicity, and social class.

Goal: Explain how Gulliver indicates he is a practical man. Use examples of how he restrains himself and accepts his condition. Using APA format, provide supporting evidence using details and referencing specific line numbers from the reading selection.    Example:  Lines 118-120 explain how Gulliver feels regarding his treatment (Swift, n.d.). OR Example: Lines 118-120 state, “Besides, I now considered myself as bound by the laws of hospitality to a people who had treated me with so much expense and magnificence ” (Swift, n.d.).   The complete citation for the bibliography, which is listed on a separate page after your essay, should be written as follows: References Swift, J. (n.d). Gulliver’s Travels.

How does knowing the speech context and speech styles improves your communication?

Read the story from  Gabriel Garcia Marquez “A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings”  (attached as file) and write a two page MLA analysis paper…make sure to use Thesis transitions analysis and Work Cited page!  Keep in mind you must have the following well structured and organized MLA paper…Intro, author details..very brief summary of the story ..THESIS…a logically developed paper and a detailed conclusion with correct transitions!

What gave some countries an early lead in industrialization? Include your name, student number, course number, the course title, and unit number with your writing assignment. • Begin each writing assignment by identifying the question number you are answering followed by the actual question itself (in bold type). • Use a standard essay format for responses to all questions (i.e., an introduction, middle paragraphs, and conclusion). • Responses must be typed double-spaced, using a standard font (i.e. Times New Roman) and 12 point type size.

Review the Institute of Medicine’s 2010 report “The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health.” Write a 750?1,000 word paper discussing the influence of the IOM report on nursing practice. Include the following: Summarize the four messages outlined in the IOM report and explain why these are significant to nursing practice. Discuss the direct influence the IOM report has on nursing education and nursing leadership. Describe the benefits and opportunities for BSN?prepared nurses. Explain why it is important that a nurse’s role and education evolve to meet the needs of an ageing and increasingly diverse population. Discuss the significance of professional development, or lifelong learning, and its relevance in caring for diverse populations across the life span and within the health?illness continuum. Discuss how nurses can assist in effectively managing patient care within an evolving health care system. Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center. An abstract is not required. This assignment uses a rubric. Please review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion. You are required to submit this assignment to LopesWrite. Refer to the LopesWrite Technical Support articles for assistance. 

  1. If the assignment is Question & Answer based then. · Introduction is needed for each question. · Question has to be answered based on the mark allotted for each question with references if any idea or information is taken from another source. 2. If the assignment is case-based then, · Executive summary · Table of content · Body of assignment (questions related to case need to be answered) · Conclusion / Recommendation if any · References (in-text + citation) to be used.   Total Marks / 60   PLAGIARISM   Plagiarism is a form of cheating, by representing someone else’s work as your own or using someone else’s work (another student or author) without acknowledging it with a reference. This is a serious breach of the Academic Regulations and will be dealt with accordingly. Students found to have plagiarised can be excluded from the program.   Plagiarism occurs whenever you do any of the following things without acknowledging the original source: ü Copy information from any source (including the study guide, books, newspapers, the internet) ü Use another person’s concepts or ideas ü Summarise or paraphrase another person’s work.       How do I avoid plagiarism?   To ensure you are not plagiarising, you must acknowledge with a reference whenever you: ü use another person’s ideas, opinions, or theory ü include any statistics, graphs, or images that have been compiled or created by another person or organization ü Paraphrase another’s written or spoken word.       What are the penalties?     The penalties for plagiarism are ü Deduction of marks, ü A mark of zero for the assignment or the unit, or ü Exclusion from the program. Plagiarism is dealt with on a case-by-case basis and the penalties will reflect the seriousness of the breach.     Please note claiming that you were not aware of the need to reference is no excuse. Case Study:     In the past, the decision criteria for mergers and acquisitions were typically based on considerations such as the strategic fit of the merged organizations, financial criteria, and operational criteria. Mergers and acquisitions were often conducted without much regard for the human resource issues that would be faced when the organizations were joined. As a result, several undesirable effects on the organizations’ human resources commonly occurred. Nonetheless, competitive conditions favor mergers and acquisitions and they remain a frequent occurrence. Examples of mergers among some of the largest companies include the following: Honeywell and Allied Signal, British Petroleum and Amoco, Exxon and Mobil, Lockheed and Martin, Boeing and McDonnell Douglas, SBC and Pacific Telesis, America Online and Time Warner, Burlington Northern and Santa Fe, Union Pacific and Southern Pacific, Daimler-Benz and Chrysler, Ford and Volvo, and Bank of America and Nations Bank.     Layoffs often accompany mergers or acquisitions, particularly if the two organizations are from the same industry. In addition to layoffs related to redundancies, top managers of acquiring firms may terminate some competent employees because they do not fit in with the new culture of the merged organization or because their loyalty to the new management may be suspect. The desire for a good fit with the cultural objectives of the new organization and loyalty is understandable. However, the depletion of the stock of human resources deserves serious consideration, just as with physical resources. Unfortunately, the way that mergers and acquisitions have been carried out has often conveyed a lack of concern for human resources.     A sense of this disregard is revealed in the following observation: Post combination integration strategies vary in tactics, some resemble “marriage & love’ but in reality, collaborative mergers are much more hostile in implementing the forceful decision and financial takeovers. Yet, as a cursory scan of virtually any newspaper or popular business magazine readily reveals, the simple fact is that the latter is much more common than the former. The cumulative effects of these developments often cause employee morale and loyalty to decline, and feelings of betrayal may develop. Nonetheless, such adverse consequences are not inevitable. A few companies, such as Cisco Systems, which has made over 50 acquisitions (https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/about/corporate-strategy-office/acquisitions/acquisitions-list- years.html), are very adept in handling the human resource issues associated with these actions. An example of one of Cisco’s practices is illustrative. At Cisco Systems, no one from an acquired firm is laid off without the personal approval of Cisco’s CEO as well as the CEO of the firm that was acquired.   QUESTIONS:     1. Investigate the approach that Cisco Systems has used in its many successful acquisitions. What are some of the human resource practices that have made its acquisitions successful?   2. If human resources are a major source of competitive advantage and the key determinant of an organization’s ability to pursue a given strategy, why have the human resource aspects of mergers and acquisitions been ignored or handled poorly in so many instances in the past?   3. Interview someone who has been through a merger or acquisition. Find out how they felt like an employee. Determine how they and their coworkers were affected. Ask about the effects on productivity, loyalty, and morale. Find out what human resource practices were used and obtain their evaluations of what was helpful or harmful.

The two bacteria I have are (B.cereus) (E.aerogenes). Goals:1.To isolate and identify your bacteria.2.To use the scientific method to reason through a series of questions (tests) and answers (results) to arrive at your conclusions.3.To write your dichotomous chart for your unknowns. 4. Write a short summary of the variety of known pathogen activity for both of these organisms. Please, seek two references for the current outbreak(within 10 years), beyond your book to support your finding. How bad are your bugs? Set up: 1. Write Unknowns on the first line. Section One: Your steps to identifying your unknown. This section needs to include step, what was done? Why done (purpose)? And observations, descriptions, and results of test, conclusion-or what were the results that lead to the next step? Why? Then write up the next step, etc…Section Two: Summarize the entire contents of section one in paragraph form for both bacteria.Section Three: Summarize the results in a dichotomous chart similar to the ones in your lab book appendix.Section Four: Write several paragraphs introducing your bacteria as a pathogen as observed elsewhere.EXAMPLE: (using factious organisms)Unknown report name: Tatiana JonesBacteria: Staphylococcus too harder and Klebsiella nowayoutaMy steps:One: Gram stain my unknown both purpose: to observe fresh culture at 24 hr growth, hoping to see both organize observations/results: Gram + cocci seem to be in chains, Gram –cocci or rods?Two: Made a streak isolation platePurpose: to start isolation, hoping to get separate distinct coloniesObservations/results: Where growing, no separate colony formation, but some halo around and beyond streaks and dots within streaks.Thought/conclusions: that one is nonmotile and the other is motile. Three: Did a Gram stain on the halo and where dots were found? Purpose: to see if the growth was-different organism.Observation/result: More Gram –in halo area way from inoculation site and more mixed Gram + and –from dot area on inoculum. Thoughts/conclusion: Gram –must be motile and Gram+ must be nonmotile. Four (+): Followed up with Gram +, by inoculating an MSA plate.Purpose: Mannitol Salt Agar has a high salt and mannitol sugar-more selective forGram + bacteria. Observations/results: Increased growth was seen on MSA, media turned yellow.Thoughts/conclusion: probably Gram +, can tolerate high salt and use mannitol as a carbohydrate source. Fifth (+): Gram stain a couple of growth spots from MSA. Purpose: to confirm or disprove the isolation of Gram +.Observation: mainly Gram + cocci, now in staph groups.Thought: mostly isolated organisms, probably in the Staph family.Sixth(+): Inoculated a PEA-blood agar plate or another MSA. Purpose: to isolate Staph completely, PEA-blood agar inhibits Gram –growth. Observation: Growth on PEA-blood, did not hemolyze blood (gamma hemolytic).Thought: Definitely not Strep, most likely Staph.-Gram stain.Seventh(+): Ran a catalase test on culture in MSA. Purpose: to see if this Staph? Can detoxify hydrogen peroxide to water and oxygen?Observation: yes –positive.Thought: yes this Staph has the catalase enzyme.Most likely: Due to MSA results and catalase, did not hemolyze blood, Gram + staph may have either Gram + Staphylococcus aureus Staphylococcus too harder.Eighth(+): Ran an oxidase test on the organism on the MSA plate. Purpose: to see if this organism has cytochrome oxidase to distinguish between aureus or too harder. (found test results on internet at [email protected]: negative for oxidase, no black on Q tipConclusion: The organism lacks cytochrome c, so does fermentation or oxidative phosphorylation without cytochrome c. I must have staphylococcus too harder.STEPFour Gr-: etc…-repeat steps relevant to Gr-bacteria if your Gram staining showed negative results. Summary: I was given culture with both a Gram + cocci and a Gram –rod. After several tests and attempts at isolating these into two separate cultures, I believe that I did isolate them both. The Gram + species (strain) atPEA-Blood selection media step, all could see is Gram-positive cocci. I believe that the Gram-positive cocci are Staphylococci too harder because it is definitely staph, by the morphology of gram stains and gram + coccidia gram staining. This staphylococcus can tolerate high salts, utilize mannitol as a carbohydrate source, does not hemolyze RBC, has the catalase enzyme but not the oxidase enzyme. For the Gram -…. That is all gram –rods. Unknown Project Requirements:1.You are given names of two bacteria: one Gram+, and one Gram-microorganism. You have to describe for each microorganism what steps must be taken for identification. First, you need to describe Gram staining for each. 2. Starting with the first Gram staining (see above) you need to describe the possible results of every test and every staining that you would perform during the identification of this particular microorganism. The description can be in a form of drawing, photographic pictures, tables, or simply a description of your expected results. 3. Every test that you describe must have a logical explanation as to WHY you need to do it, WHAT you would see as a result of the test.4.After outlining the results of your tests, you need to conduct Flow Chat (dichotomous chart)for your unknown bacteria clearly showing what tests you performed and why narrowing down the list of possible microorganisms in each group.5.After completing Flow Chat for yourGram+ and Gram-microorganisms, you need to write a report based on the proposed tests for both, Gram+ and Gram-bacteria, confirming your conclusions by literature references (textbook and lab manual are included). 6. You need to conclude Unknown Project Report by brief Summary describing specific characteristics of both, Gram+ and Gram-, microorganisms that you identified, highlighting potential pathogenic activity for both of these organisms, unique characteristics, and other specific features. 7. As you write your Unknown Report, you need to use at least three appropriate sources of references from the scientific literature database. Do not use your textbook to support your findings. You can use the list of Journals that are posted for Photo Quiz, or other relevant peer-reviewed Journals. Copying and pasting Journal’s URL is not an appropriate reference format. You need to arrange your references using EXACTLY the same format as you find in one of the Journals listed, or in the Journal that you choose to use. Unknown ProjectEvaluation Criteria (100% total Project’s grade):1.Ability to follow logical steps proposing tests for bacterial identification –20%2.Logical and conclusive Flow Chat –20%3.Supporting data presentation –20%4.Ability to follow the rubrics –15%5.Logical and science-based explanations of every step and tests performed–15%6.Support of the statements and conclusions by cited literature –5%7.Literature references made inappropriate format –5%_________________________________________TOTAL 100%. Guidelines for Students’ PapersThe goal of analyzing research papers and writing your own paper based on that analysis, is:?To attain the ability to comprehend and analyze research literature;?To use literature search tools to generate a pool of reliable references to support your point of view;?To conduct research papers and to appreciate differences between the structure of research papers that are based on authors’ own experimental results and review papers that are based on up-to-date literature analysis. Sections of Students’ Paper.1.Abstract.Write no more than 4 –5 sentences:?highlight the importance of the topic of your paper;?very briefly describe what type of study or experimental approaches have been used to test a proposed hypothesis (include a very limited description of hypothesis or authors points of view on the topic);?make a brief statement about the results that authors acquired and whether or not you agree with author’s conclusions.2.Introduction.Write 3 –5 sentences for each paragraph listed below:?what so far is known about the microorganism of your paper’s topic;?why authors decided to find new approaches in diagnosis or treatment of given microorganism;?what was authors’ hypothesis (detailed explanation of proposed hypothesis and its possible outcome as to the improvement of treatment, understanding of the disease pathway, or development new diagnostic techniques); ?why authors chose the methods that they used for experiments;?what have authors shown by their experiments (has been hypothesis proven? were results of experiments applicable to practical needs of biomedical science?).3. Materials and Methods. Describe study subjects or objects (patients, animal models, cells), list all groups of the subjects or objects used in experiments. Describe experimental design (treatment, challenges, techniques that have been used to assess the changes during experimental procedures). Practically you will be copying this part from the original paper, however, it is important to describe everything in your own words applying your own understanding of the methods used.4.Results.Describe what results in authors derived from performed experiments. This part you will also copy from the original paper, however, describe the results in your own words and make your comments (1-2 sentences) at the end of the result for every performed experiment. 5.Discussion.Write 3 –5 sentences for each paragraph below:?did the authors prove their hypothesis??what other experts in the field think/write about the subject of study??state your opinion about the subject of the study, proposed hypothesis, methods of testing the hypothesis, and interpretation of the results.?make realistic suggestions about experimental settings and methods. Support every statement that you make in Introduction, Results or Discussionsectionsby cited literature. Use 5 to 10 reliable references (scientific journals, NIH and CDC websites, and textbooks). The references MUST be arranged in the format that was used in the original paper, which you are using to write your paper (the list of references you can find at the end of the paper). To site reference in your text, use the number corresponding to the number of references in your references list. DO NOT “re-use” references! These means do not use the references that authors of the original paper used! Find your own.