Determine which arguments are the most plausible. Provide a rationale for your views.

rite a five to six (5-6) page paper in which you:

(Note: Refer to Review Question 8 located at the end of Chapter 3 for criteria 1-3. Select two (2) editorials / essays / columns (by staff or freelance writers) on a current issue of public policy from two (2) different publications (large metropolitan or national newspaper such as Washington Post or the New York Times or national magazines such as Newsweek, Time, and The New Republic.)

Apply the procedures for argumentation analysis (located in Chapter 8) to display contending positions and underlying assumptions for the content of Review Question 8.
Rate the assumptions and plot them according to their plausibility and importance. (Refer to Figure 3.16, “Distribution of warrant by plausibility and importance.”)
Determine which arguments are the most plausible. Provide a rationale for your views.

(Note: Refer to Demonstration Exercise 1 located at the end of Chapter 3 for criteria 4-6. Examine Box 3.0 – Conducting a Stakeholder Analysis. Choose one of the following policy issues in the U.S. gun control, illegal drugs, medical insurance fraud, and environmental protection of waterways, job creation, affordable health care, or Medicare.)

Apply the procedures for stakeholder analysis presented in Box 3.0 “Conducting a Stakeholder Analysis” to generate a list of at least five to ten (5-10) stakeholders who affect or are affected by problems in the issue area chosen for analysis. (Note: Refer to page 111 of the textbook for a step-by-step process on stakeholder analysis.)
After creating a cumulative frequency distribution from the list, discuss new ideas generated by each stakeholder. (Note: The ideas may be objectives, alternatives, outcomes causes, etc.; ideas should not be duplicates.)
Write an analysis of the results of the frequency distribution that answers the following questions: (a) Does the line graph flatten out? (b) If so, after how many stakeholders? (c) What conclusions can be drawn about the policy problems in the issue area? (Note: Compare your work with Case Study 3.1 at the end of the chapter.)
Include at least two (2) peer-reviewed references (no more than five [5] years old) from material outside the textbook to support your views. Note: Appropriate peer-reviewed references include scholarly articles and governmental Websites. Do not use open source Websites such as Wikipedia, Sparknotes.com

Determine the fundamental ways in which the NCAA’s ethics program failed to prevent the scandals at Penn State, Ohio State, and the University of Arkansas.

Case Study 2: National Collegiate Athletic Association Ethics and Compliance Program

Due Week 6 and worth 200 points

Read “Case Study 6: National Collegiate Athletic Association Ethics and Compliance Program,” located on page 444 of the textbook.

Write a four to six (4-6) page paper in which you:

Determine the fundamental ways in which the NCAA’s ethics program failed to prevent the scandals at Penn State, Ohio State, and the University of Arkansas. Support your response with one (1) example from each of these schools’ scandals.
Examine the principal ways in which the leadership of the NCAA contributed to the ethical violations of Penn State, Ohio State, and the University of Arkansas. Support your response with one (1) example from each of these schools’ scandals.
Predict the key differences in the scenarios that occurred at Penn State, Ohio State, and the University of Arkansas if an effective ethics program was in place. Provide a rationale for your response.
Postulate on two (2) actions that the NCAA leadership should take in order to regain the trust and confidence of students and stakeholders.
Recommend two (2) measures that the HR departments of colleges and universities should take to prevent similar incidents from occurring in the future. Provide a rationale for your response.
Use at least three (3) quality academic resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and other similar Websites do not qualify 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.
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:

Describe the business ethics issues and definitions, theories, and frameworks important to organizational ethical decision making and the role of a human resource professional.
Determine the role of stakeholder interests, the interrelationship of ethics and social responsibility, and the role of corporate governance in ethics.
Analyze scenarios to determine the ethical character of decisions made and the related impact on the organization.
Write clearly and concisely about issues in ethics and advocacy for HR professionals using correct grammar and mechanics.
Use technology and information resources to research issues in business ethics and advocacy for HR professionals.

Answer

Would we welcome them into our society, or would we shun them?

Anthropology paper!

First Writing Assignment Anthropology 100 Diamond, Jared The Third Chimpanzee Prologue, Chapters 1 and 2, and Epilogue

Myths and storytelling are an integral part of the human experience. Remember that anthropologists use the term “myth” in a way that is different from common usage. When an anthropologist refers to a specific story as a “myth,” s/he does not mean that it is false. Anthropologists define myths as stories that have significant social meanings and often prescribe codes of correct, ethical behavior and/or prohibit incorrect, unethical acts. In other words, myths may or may not be “factual,” but they are always “true.” Truth and fact are two different concepts. The sentence “thou shalt not steal” is a truth because it prescribes a specific rule to live by, but it is not a “fact” because some people do steal. The sentence “theft and property crime declined by 7.2% over the past 30 years” is a “fact,” but not a “truth,” because it describes the way things are, but doesn’t offer any advice concerning what we should do or how we should feel about it. Science is often considered to be an “objective” exercise, and to a large extent this is correct. However, the information discovered by scientists can have “mythical” implications, just as much as any other information. Jared Diamond discusses many facts in The Third Chimpanzee, but he does not stop with simple description. Instead, he uses these facts to try to arrive at a number of ethical truths concerning how we should act. For your paper, read Diamond’s Prologue, Part One (Chapters 1 and 2), and Epilogue (Nothing Learned, and Everything Forgotten?) and look for the following themes:

1) Taxonomy: Classification is never “value free.” The way we organize our experiences into conceptual categories is influenced by the way we think the world should be. In turn, our classification systems influence the way we think things “really are.” What is Diamond’s opinion of the way humans, common chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes), and bonobos (“pygmy chimps,” Pan paniscus) are classified? How should they be classified, according to Diamond? Is Diamond’s argument convincing? Why or why not?

2) Ethics: The way we treat others is, in part, influenced by how well we know them (or how well we think we know them). If chimpanzees were re-classified as members of our genus, would we treat them the same way as we do now (e.g. putting them in zoos, performing medical experiments on them, and destroying their habitat by deforestation)? If not, why not?

3) Speculation: A few million years ago, there were several species of large-brained, human-like creatures on earth, and as recently as 29,000 years ago, there were two (humans and neandertals). Today, there is only a single species of large-brained, bipedal hominid left on the planet. In your opinion, and based on your readings in Diamond and Haviland, and on lectures, what might modern life be like if there were two species of intelligent, culture-using hominids alive today? Would we get along, or would we fight? Would we cooperate or compete? Would we welcome them into our society, or would we shun them? Why do you think this would be the case, and do you feel that this should be the case, or would you oppose the general trends? Why or why not?

Answer all three questions. Your writing must meet college-level standards, and your paper should be a minimum of 7 double-spaced pages. Longer papers are acceptable if you have a lot to say. Because I expect high-quality writing, I am willing to accept rough drafts and make suggestions about ways to improve your papers (and thus improve your grade), and you are encouraged to take advantage of that offer. You are also encouraged to work together with your classmates, although of course the final draft should be your own original work.

How does this training program align with the overall challenges and/or opportunities that the organization is facing?

Progress Report

Complete a two to three page (excluding title and reference pages) report on the progress you have made to date on your Senior Project. You must use a minimum of three scholarly sources. Your report, and any citations used, must be in APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center. Your progress report should cover the following:

Topic: Identify the topic that you have selected for your Senior Project and provide a brief explanation for why you have chosen to address this topic *This may be copied from the Week Two assignment if evaluated as Distinguished Performance. Otherwise, make adjustments per Week Two feedback.
Organization Specific Rationale: Provide a brief overview of the health care organization that you have selected for your Senior Project including a summary of the challenges and/or opportunities impacting the balance between health care costs, quality, and access to services that the organization is currently facing. The challenges and/or opportunities should directly relate to your rationale for why you have chosen your topic (i.e., training program) to help the organizational leaders manage this challenge/opportunity. Challenges and/or opportunities should be grounded in the research (e.g., web-based resources, electronic articles, or personal interviews). The more informed you are, the better prepared you will be to complete your Senior Project.
Training: Identify the audience for your training program and provide a brief outline of the topics it will address. Include a minimum of three to five learning outcomes that are targeted for your identified audience. Specifically, what do you want your audience to know and/or be able to do after they have completed training? How does this training program align with the overall challenges and/or opportunities that the organization is facing? Overall, how will the training program benefit the organization?

Answer

What were the signs of the time which led the theorist to develop the management concept?

Week 2 Paper: How Have We Evolved in the Management Field?

A 3-5 page paper is due in Week 2. The paper will consist of 3-5 pages of content, a cover page and a reference page. The total page count with the cover page and the reference page should be 5-7 pages.

Your paper should include an introduction and conclusion that summarize the contents of the entire paper.

Your paper should be written in proper APA format. This link will take you to the section of the APUS library that can assist you with formatting:

apus.campusguides.com/content.php

Paper topic: How Have We Evolved in the Management Field?

Write:

Based on your readings and research, develop a timeline of five key management theory/principle milestones over time. Please address the following questions for each of the milestones you elect to include on your timeline:

Why was this milestone significant for the period of time it was created? What was going on in the world of work that allowed the environment to know the time was right for this particular milestone?
Which theorist “fathered” the principle? What were the signs of the time which led the theorist to develop the management concept?
What are the highlights and limitations of the theory/principle?

References: At least two references are required for this assignment. You may use your textbook as a reference in addition to the two external references.

Identify three primary types of energy that powers your home as well as all of the homes in your community.

LIVE IN SEATTLE WASHINGTON!!!! IMPORTANT!!!!

Assignment 1: LASA 2: Examining Your Community’s Source of Energy

It is easy to criticize society for not using renewable resources, but in reality, how difficult would this transition be? What processes and procedures would be involved? How would such a transition be made?

The purpose of this assignment is for you to consider what type of energy your neighborhood is currently powered by and what it would really take to convert this source to a renewable one. How much would it take to switch your community to a renewable resource and what would this mean for the environment?

For the assignment, complete the following:

Identify three primary types of energy that powers your home as well as all of the homes in your community. You may find this information on your community Web site or the Web sites of the local power companies. For example, your community may use electricity and solar panels.
Explain how the sources of energy you identified impact the environment. Consider the following:
- Does the use of these types of energy resource have a negative impact on the environment in your area?
- Does your community have nuclear waste to dispose of?
- Has your community always used these three power sources? If so, how do you feel this has impacted the environment over time?
- How much of an impact have these sources of energy had on local air and water quality?

Considering the current source(s) of power available, determine how much energy your house uses each month. You can find this information on your monthly energy bill.

Calculate your annual usage for a year. Using this value, estimate the energy consumption for your community. The US Census Bureau is one resource you can use to estimate the number of households in your community.

You can use the following formulae for this calculation:

(monthly energy usage) × (12 months per year) = (household energy usage per year);

(yearly energy estimate for your house) × (estimated number of houses in your community) = (estimated yearly energy use for your community)

The following is an example of the above calculation:

52.8 kilowatt hours (kwh) per month × 12 months = 633.6 kwh;

633.6 kwh × 200 houses in your community = 126,720 kwh

Recommend a realistic, renewable resource to power your community, using your calculated power needs. Consider the following sources: hydropower, solar power, wind turbines, and geothermal energy.
- Which source would be the best for your community?
- Justify your choice based on the kind of resources that are available, how much power these alternative sources can produce, and your estimated energy demands for the community.
Having recommended an alternative power source, conclude by addressing the following:
- How realistic is this alternative power source for your community?
- How will people in your community respond to energy conversion? Will they support it or be against it? Give reasons.
- How expensive would it be to convert to the alternative power source you recommended? How would this new source impact the environment?
- What organisms would benefit most from this conversion?

Support your statements with appropriate examples and approximately 4–6 credible resources.

Write an 8–10-page paper in Word format. Apply APA standards to citation of sources. Use the following file naming convention: LastnameFirstInitial_M5_A1.doc.

By Monday, February 8, 2016, deliver your assignment to the M5: Assignment 1 Dropbox.

Grading Criteria and Rubric

Download the rubric and carefully read it to understand the expectations.

Assignment 1 Grading Criteria	Maximum Points
Identify three primary types of energy that powers your home as well as all of the homes in your community.	36
Explain how your current sources of energy impact the environment, and answer all additional required questions in the assignment.	52
Determine how much energy your house uses each month and calculate the energy consumption for your entire city.	40
Recommend a realistic renewable resource to power your city, using your calculated power needs. Justify your response.	40
Explain how realistic this new resource is for your area, what the expense to convert energy sources would be, and whether you feel that people would support an energy conversion.	40
Explain how this new energy source would impact the environment and what organisms would benefit most from this conversion.	28
Writing Components: Organization (16) Usage and Mechanics (16) APA Elements (24) Style (8)	64

What are the main sections of the statement of operations?

Statement of Operations and Financial Statements

Submit written responses to these questions.

List several efforts that have been enacted by payors to control costs.
Explain the ramifications of allowing/disallowing an individual to be able to sue his or her HMO.
What are each of the financial statements commonly called in for-profit health care organizations and in not for-profit care organizations?

The following questions relate to the statement of operations of not for-profit health care organizations.

What is the analogous for-profit statement called? What are the main sections of the statement of operations?
What are revenues, gains, and other support?
What are expenses and losses?
Funds released from restricted net assets to unrestricted net assets are presented in what section of the statement of revenue, expenses and other activities?

The following questions relate to the statement of changes in net assets.

What is the traditional name for this statement?
What is the purpose of this statement?
What are the main sections of this statement?
Discuss the difference between permanently restricted and temporarily restricted net assets.

The following questions relate to the statement of cash flows of a not-profit health care organization.

What are its main sections?
What is the purpose of this statement?
Where in the financial statements would there be important explanatory information?
In what financial statement would one identify the purchase of long-term investments?
How does the accrual basis of accounting differ from the cash basis of accoun

How many scale items will you put in the survey?

Designing a Survey

Part I

A company’s cereal is not selling well. Create a 10–15-question survey that measures customers’ preferences for the company’s cereal product. Later, answer the following questions:

How many scale items will you put in the survey? Justify your answer.
Will you use multiple-choice questions? Why or why not?
How many scale items will you use in the survey?
Why did you select that number of scale items?
How many scale points will you use in the survey? Justify your answer.
What data type will be used in the survey? Justify your answer.

Submit your answers in a two- to three-page Word document.

cite all sources using the APA guidelines.

Part II

As a second part of this assignment, create a set of survey questions, assuming that you sell cars. You are attempting to measure how customers perceive the quality of the cars that you sell.

Create three survey questions with simple category scales. Justify why you selected those questions and scales.
Create three survey questions with multiple-choice, single-response scales. Justify why you selected those questions and scales.
Create three survey questions with multiple-choice, multiple-response scales. Justify why you selected those questions and scales.
Create three survey questions with Likert scale summated ratings. Justify why you selected those questions and scales.

Submit your answers in a two- to three-page Word document.

Since the person who ordered was not an ”employee,” but a friend you hired, are you liable to pay for the improper order?

As a small-business owner, you are faced with rising costs, particularly employment costs, insurance, et cetera. So, you decide to hire some friends and pay them as they work, rather than go through the expense and procedure of bringing in “actual” employees. Your friends wear the business uniform, deal with vendors and customers, and tell friends and family that they work for the business. One friend / employee orders way too much from a vendor. The vendor has dealt with the person numerous times; in fact, the person has been ordering from the vendor for months.

Since the person who ordered was not an ”employee,” but a friend you hired, are you liable to pay for the improper order?
Discuss the implications of agency that apply in this situation, and describe at least one (1) way the company may be able to cancel or return the order in question.

Describe how your researched large organization uses “policy as a project” in its program.

Capstone Project Overview

The purpose of this Capstone Project is for students to examine and solve real world information assurance problems and apply associated techniques to create practical solutions. The course takes an integrative and senior security officer approach to address the policy, risk, and control opportunities within cyberspace and IT environments. Deliverables 1 through 5 focus on preparing students toward the final Capstone Project. Skills, experience, and knowledge gained through the completion of prerequisite courses will be used throughout each deliverable. The project contents to be addressed are as follows:

Project Deliverable 3: Security Policy Documentation

Project Deliverable 3 is a two-part deliverable using MS Word and MS Project, or their open source equivalents. Note: You may create and / or make all necessary assumptions needed for the completion of this assignment.

Research the Internet for a large organization, reviewing its cybersecurity policy.

From your textbook, examine the phrase “policy as a project” from the Cyber Security Policy Guidebook, taking into account the security cycle.

Submission Requirements

Document (MS Word)
Microsoft Project (MS Project)

Section 1

Write a three to four (3-4) page paper in which you:

Analyze the strategy used to protect the large organization you researched from hackers, fraud, and theft.
Describe how your researched large organization uses “policy as a project” in its program.
Analyze the general consequences of not having a policy for cybersecurity. Justify your thoughts with real-world examples.
Cover the basic needs should there be a lack of cybersecurity policy in an organization. Decide what can be done to provide a base for security needs.

Section 2

Using Microsoft Project, or an open source alternative such as OpenProj, to:

5. Record all tasks, subtasks, resources, and time related to the security cycle.

6. Outline the organization’s business, the systems, mission, and / or risk management phases in your design.

7. Your milestones should show how you are reducing cybersecurity risk rather than compliance and best practices.

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:

Discuss cybersecurity strategies and the various frameworks.
Discuss the threats of modern technology in the workplace.
Discuss how policies play an important role in techniques adopted for cybersecurity.
Use technology and information resources to research issues in information assurance.
Write clearly and concisely about information assurance topics using proper writing mechanics and technical style conventions.