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1. Discuss what is contained in a sexual battery kit, the significance of each item, and what evidential value it may hold to prove a rape occurred.

2. Describe at least three of the methods that can be used by the legal system to reject sexual assault cases and discredit victims’ allegations of sexual assault.

3. Discuss the various types of treatments for sexual offenders. Which strategies for rehabilitation should be undertaken for the various types of rapists?

4. Is rape always about sexual desire? What about assaults against the elderly, handicapped, same sex assaults? What are some of the underlying reasons for these attacks?

 

Sociologists cite the weakening of the family as one of the causes for some of the problems that American society faces today. Do you agree? In your paper, include the following information:

• Identify important or significant changes in families since 1960. What factors are responsible for this change?
• On the balance, are families becoming weaker or simply different in society? What evidence can you cite?
• If you agree that the family has become weaker in American society, what proposals do you have to strengthen the family?
• If you disagree and believe that the family has become stronger in American culture in recent decades, please explain why.

Purpose of Assignment

to help develop an understanding of what money is, what forms money takes, how the banking system helps create money, and how the Federal Reserve controls the quantity of money. Students will learn how the quantity of money affects inflation and interest rates in the long run, and production and employment in the short run. Students will find that, in the long run, there is a strong relationship between the growth rate of money and inflation. Students will review the basic concepts macroeconomists use to study open economies and will address why a nation’s net exports must equal its net capital outflow. Students will demonstrate the relationship between the prices and quantities in the market for loanable funds and the prices and quantities in the market for foreign-currency exchange. Student will learn to analyze the impact of a variety of government policies on an economy’s exchange rate and trade balance.

Assignment Steps

Resources: National Bureau of Economic Research (http://www.nber.org/links/gov.html)

Develop a 2,100-word economic outlook forecast that includes the following:

Analyze the history of changes in GDP, savings, investment, real interest rates, and unemployment and compare to forecast for the next five years.
Discuss how government policies can influence economic growth.
Analyze how monetary policy could influence the long-run behavior of price levels, inflation rates, costs, and other real or nominal variables.
Describe how trade deficits or surpluses can influence the growth of productivity and GDP.
Discuss the importance of the market for loanable funds and the market for foreign-currency exchange to the achievement of the strategic plan.
Recommend, based on your above findings, whether the strategic plan can be achieved and provide support.

Purpose of Assignment 

To address six unresolved issues in macroeconomics, each of which is central to current political debates. Students are required to use information and tools that they have accumulated in their study of the text and evaluate both sides of those issues, determine which side they can support for each issue, and defend their positions.

 

Assignment Steps 

Select two subjects from the following list of topics and write a 1,050-word analysis:

• Active monetary and fiscal policy
• Increased government spending to fight recessions
• Reducing federal government’s discretionary powers
• Zero-inflation target
• Balanced government budget
• Tax incentives for saving

Evaluate both the advocates’ position and the critics’ position.

Determine which position you support and defend your position. 

Format consistent with APA guidelines. 

Students, please view the “Submit a Clickable Rubric Assignment” in the Student Center.

Instructors, training on how to grade is within the Instructor Center.

 

Assignment 3: Recruiting

Due Week 5 and worth 200 points

 

Imagine you are presenting a new global recruiting strategy to your boss. Choose either Japan or Saudi Arabia, and research business strategies for recruiting in your chosen region. Identify the top three to five (3-5) factors that would need to be considered when recruiting in the country you chose. Close with a persuasive summary on why you believe these factors are important. Close with a persuasive summary that explains why these factors are important. Demonstrate your findings to your boss in the form of a PowerPoint presentation.

 

Create a four to eight (4-8) slide PowerPoint in which you:

 

1. Summarize your findings about recruiting in either Japan or Saudi Arabia.
2. Identify the top three to five (3-5) factors that would need to be considered when recruiting in your chosen region.
3. Develop a persuasive closing summary that describes why the factors you identified are important.
4. Include links or references to one to three (1-3) quality resources based on your research. Note: Wikipedia and similar websites do not qualify as quality resources.
5. Format your assignment according to the following formatting requirements:

 

a. Format the PowerPoint presentation with headings on each slide and one (1) relevant graphic (photograph, graph, clip art, etc.). Ensuring that the presentation is visually appealing and readable from up to 18 feet away. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.

b. Include a title slide containing the title of the assignment, your name, your professor’s name, the course title, and the date.

 

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

 

• Analyze international business strategy to identify human resource requirements and formulate supporting HRM plans that can improve productivity and contribute to the firm’s competitiveness.
• Propose staffing alternatives for foreign operations and address the considerations for the use of expatriates versus localization or third-country nationals.
• Assess recruiting and selection strategies that can be used to effectively meet organizational requirements for operating in multiple countries.
• Use technology and information resources to research issues in global HRM.
• Write clearly and concisely about global HRM using proper writing mechanics

Instructions

For this assignment, collect data exhibiting a relatively linear trend, find the line of best fit, plot the data and the line, interpret the slope, and use the linear equation to make a prediction. Also, find r2 (coefficient of determination) and r (correlation coefficient). Discuss your findings. Your topic may be that is related to sports, your work, a hobby, or something you find interesting. If you choose, you may use the suggestions described below.

A Linear Model Example and Technology Tips are provided in separate documents.

Tasks for Linear Regression Model (LR)

(LR-1) Describe your topic, provide your data, and cite your source. Collect at least 8 data points. Label appropriately.  (Highly recommended: Post this information in the Linear Model Project discussion as well as in your completed project. Include a brief informative description in the title of your posting. Each student must use different data.)

The idea with the discussion posting is two-fold: (1) To share your interesting project idea with your classmates, and (2) To give me a chance to give you a brief thumbs-up or thumbs-down about your proposed topic and data. Sometimes students get off on the wrong foot or misunderstand the intent of the project, and your posting provides an opportunity for some feedback. Remark: Students may choose similar topics, but must have different data sets. For example, several students may be interested in a particular Olympic sport, and that is fine, but they must collect different data, perhaps from different events or different gender.

(LR-2) Plot the points (x, y) to obtain a scatterplot. Use an appropriate scale on the horizontal and vertical axes and be sure to label carefully. Visually judge whether the data points exhibit a relatively linear trend. (If so, proceed. If not, try a different topic or data set.)

(LR-3) Find the line of best fit (regression line) and graph it on the scatterplot. State the equation of the line.

(LR-4) State the slope of the line of best fit. Carefully interpret the meaning of the slope in a sentence or two.

(LR-5) Find and state the value of r2, the coefficient of determination, and r, the correlation coefficient. Discuss your findings in a few sentences. Is r positive or negative? Why? Is a line a good curve to fit to this data? Why or why not? Is the linear relationship very strong, moderately strong, weak, or nonexistent?

(LR-6) Choose a value of interest and use the line of best fit to make an estimate or prediction. Show calculation work.

(LR-7) Write a brief narrative of a paragraph or two. Summarize your findings and be sure to mention any aspect of the linear model project (topic, data, scatterplot, line, r, or estimate, etc.) that you found particularly important or interesting.

You may submit all of your project in one document or a combination of documents, which may consist of word processing documents or spreadsheets or scanned handwritten work, provided it is clearly labeled where each task can be found. Be sure to include your name. Projects are graded on the basis of completeness, correctness, ease in locating all of the checklist items, and strength of the narrative portions.

Due Week 6 and worth 100 points

Update the Microsoft Project file you created in Assignment 3: VoIP Part 2 (Work Breakdown Structure) with the following changes:

• Set property values to denote progress in at least fifteen (15) of the line items.
• Set properties so that at least one (1) of the main tasks is behind schedule.
• Create a Gantt chart for your project.
• Take a screenshot of the Gantt chart which can later be inserted into your written paper.
• Create a PERT diagram that identifies the critical path.
• Take a screenshot of the PERT chart which can later be inserted into your written paper.

Note: If you need a tutorial on taking a screen shot, visit one of the following locations: (PC users: http://www.take-a-screenshot.org/) (MAC users: http://binged.it/1xriOcN).

Write a two to three (2-3) page paper in which you:

1. Compare and contrast the information that one receives from a Gantt chart, versus that of a PERT diagram.
2. Examine the advantages of using a Gantt chart over a PERT chart and vice versa. Determine when it is appropriate to use one over the other. Justify your response.
3. Assess the importance of the critical path in project management.
4. Insert the screenshots of the Gantt and PERT charts you created based on the provided criteria. Elaborate on the status of the VoIP deployment project based on the updated information.  Note: The graphical representations do not count toward the overall page requirement.
5. Use at least two (2) quality resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and similar Websites do not qualify as quality resources.

Please use the question/answer method. Copy paste question, then answer. Then next question and answer. Etc.

This way we know which question you are answering and when you are moving to next question….LOL!

“Identifying Truth or Fiction” Please respond to the following:
The video clip ‘The Baloney Detection Kit’ in the Webtext this week discusses the many ways in which an effective critical thinker assesses the claims made by others.

1. Explain what you believe is the real difference between ‘science’ and ‘pseudoscience’.

2. Examine the key reasons why so many people might seem to be attracted to more pseudoscience-type claims.

3. Describe at least two (2) such claims that you have heard people make, and analyze the main reasons why such claims do or do not meet rigorous scientific methodology standards.

4. Determine at least two (2) ways in which the material discussed this week has changed your own thinking.

Please use the question/answer method

Culture Analysis Paper

Analyze an organizational culture (The writer may choose any organization). This could be the organization you work with, or it could be some other organization to which you have access. Remember that clubs, associations, and churches can be considered organizations.

Research (data gathering) should include (but does not need to be limited to) mainly primary sources.

Primary data is the data collected by the researcher themselves, i.e.

Interviews

Observations

Action research

Case studies

Life histories

Questionnaires

Ethnographic research

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Secondary sources are data that already exists

Previous research

Official statistics

Mass media products

Diaries

Letters

Government reports

Web information

Historical data and information

Collect your data and analyze it. Describe how you collected the data (observation, interviews, surveys, etc).

 

Then, analyze the organizational culture along three dimensions: artifacts, values, and underlying assumptions. Give examples of behavior, speech, or symbols that illustrate your findings. This paper should be 5-8 pages in length. Any data used (interviews, surveys, websites, etc.) should be attached as appendices.