Recall an experience with a transformational leader.
· What transformational leadership qualities did the person possess?
· How did these qualities impact the leader’s interactions with others?
· Share your response in a minimum of 175 words.
Saturday, March 20, 2021
Consider a swimsuit vendor who sells swimsuits at a unit price of $100
(Inventory Management): Consider a swimsuit vendor who sells swimsuits at a unit price of $100 during the summer selling season. The vendor has one ordering opportunity and he orders the swimsuits from the supplier at a unit cost of $30 before the selling season. Unsold swimsuits can be returned to the supplier after summer, with a salvage value of $10 each. The swimsuit vendor expects that the total demand during the summer selling season follows a uniform distribution between 3000 to 6000 units. In this case, what is the unit overage cost? What is the unit underage cost? What is the vendor’s optimal order quantity (round your answers to the nearest integer)?
Food Security
Questions from Chapter 4
1) Define Food Security. Traditionally, what have the ethics discussions around food been?
2) In discussing Food Security, how did Amartya Sen use the concept of entitlement?
3) What are some of the ways industrialized countries, like the United States, care for its own people when households face economic challenges, and cannot earn enough money for food?
4) In developing countries, food aid is often delivered from developed countries, and distributed in poor communities. How does this disrupt the activities of local farmers?
5) Use this example to answer the following questions:
Consider asmall city of 1000 households with high unemployment. It was announced that a company was coming to build a factory that would provide jobs for about 700 people, yet the development would cause 100 families to lose their jobs.
a. Explain the pros of the situation.
b. What are the ethical questions that may be raised here? Explain.
c. How would utilitarian thinkers feel about this situation?
d. What may be a solution here? IF you can, explain how Kant might respond.
6) In the United States many small farmers have sold their farms and moved to urban areas. This has resulted in much larger, highly efficient farms. What are the pros and cons to this situation, and how would utilitarians justify this?
7) Define farmer agency. How does it apply in regards to the situations in 5 and 6.
Nature vs. Nurture
Nature vs. Nurture Position Paper STEP ONE: The authors of the textbook introduce the debate between the role of nature (i.e., the influence of genetics and the presence of certain innate qualities) and nurture (i.e., the importance of experience on knowledge acquisition). In your position paper, address is you feel nature or nurture more strongly influences our preferences, personality makeup, intelligence, etc. Provide an example from your life experience(s) to support your assertion. STEP TWO: After you decide, review the twin research by Thomas Bouchard of the University of Minnesota. Studies of twins reared apart provide a fascinating introduction to the complex interplay between nature and nurture. He studied identical twins separated at or shortly after birth and then reared apart, often with no knowledge that their twin even existed. Because the twins were all identical twins, they share the same genetics, meaning that any differences in the behaviors under investigation are more attributable to environment (nurture) rather than genetics (nature). Bouchard located these separated twins as adults, and found remarkable similarities in certain areas, particularly with regard to personality and personal preferences. For a detailed description of the “Jim twins” and their amazing similarities, visit the Minnesota Center for Twin and Family Research at https://mctfr.psych.umn.edu/research/UM%20research.html. Also, it is strongly recommended that you watch Three Identical Strangers (available on Hulu with subscription and other streaming services as a rental). STEP THREE: In your position paper, address how the findings fit with the nature versus nurture controversy. Have your opinions shifted? Your Paper will be 1 ½ - 2 pages, 12 pt. font, with 1 inch margins. APA format is expected. As such, citations and corresponding references should be included.
Creating a Single-System (Subject) Design Study
Assignment: Creating a Single-System (Subject) Design Study
The steps at the heart of single-system (subject) research are part of the everyday practice of social work. Each day social workers implement interventions to meet clients’ needs and monitor results. However, conducting proper single-system (subject) research entails far more than these simple day-to-day practices. Proper single-system research requires a high degree of knowledge and commitment. Social workers must fully understand the purpose of single-system (subject) research and the variations of single-system (subject) design. They must develop a hypothesis based upon research and select the right design for testing it. They must ensure the reliability and validity of the data to be collected and know how to properly analyze and evaluate that data. This assignment asks you to rise to the challenge of creating a proposal for a single-subject research study.
To prepare for this Assignment, imagine that you are the social worker assigned to work with Paula Cortez (see the case study, “Social Work Research: Single Subject” in this week’s resources). After an initial assessment of her social, medical, and psychiatric problems, you develop a plan for intervention. You also develop a plan to monitor progress in your work with her using measures that can be evaluated in a single-system research design. As a scholar practitioner, you rely on research to help plan your intervention and your evaluation plan.
Complete the Cortez Family interactive media in this week’s resources. Conduct a literature search related to the chronic issues related to HIV/AIDS and bipolar mental disorder. Search for additional research related to assessing outcomes and theoretical frameworks appropriate for this client. For example, your search could include terms such as motivational interviewing and outcomes and goal-oriented practice and outcomes. You might also look at the NREPP database identified in Week 1, to search for interventions related to mental health and physical health.
By Day 7
Submit a 5- to 7-page proposal/research plan for single-system (subject) evaluation for your work with Paula Cortez. Identify the problems that you will target and the outcomes you will measure, select an appropriate intervention or interventions (including length of time), and identify an appropriate evaluation plan.
Include a description of:
The problem(s) that are the focus of treatment
The intervention approach, including length of time, so that it can be replicated
A summary of the literature that you reviewed that led you to select this intervention approach
The purpose for conducting a single-system (subject) research evaluation
The measures for evaluating the outcomes and observing change including:
Evidence from your literature search about the nature of the measures
The validity and reliability of the measures
How baseline measures will be obtained
How often follow-up measures will be administered
The criteria that you would use to determine whether the intervention is effective
How the periodic measurements could assist you in your ongoing work with Paula
Benjamin Franklin's autobiography Part 1 and Part 2
Benjamin Franklin's autobiography Part 1 and Part 2
Journal Instructions and Topic Choices Three journals are required during the semester. Journals must be written on current readings. Journals are due on Thursdays. Only one journal can be written per week. Journals need to written in MLA format. They should be AT LEAST 15 sentences and include a thesis that introduces the work, the author, and the journal topic. Journals are not summaries. If you choose to write on poetry, you will need to include at least THREE poems by the same author. Choose ONE of the following to address in your journal. 1. Apply 2 of the steps of characterization to a major or minor character in the work by discussing how the technique reveals something about his society. ▪ What a character says ▪ What a character does ▪ What a character looks like ▪ What others say about him ▪ What the author says about him 2. Apply 2 of the methods of evaluating literature to the work. ▪ Historical provenance ▪ Details of the lifestyle of the period ▪ Psychological accuracy ▪ Position in the history of literature ▪ Insight into the author’s perspective 3. Define the genre to which the work belongs and apply 2 parts to specific examples. 4. No scene of violence exists for its own sake. Choose a violent scene and discuss its relevance to 2 different characters, not how it relates to the plot. 5. List 2 themes of the work and for each briefly discuss how each is revealed through character, incident or symbol. . 6. Xerox and paste a significant passage onto the journal and explain it in terms of its significance to the work. 7. Choose 2 symbols in the work and discuss their significance to a specific character(s), or choose Journal Instructions and Topic Choices one symbol and discuss 2 different ways in which it is employed. 8. Discuss how tone (the author’s voice) combined with the atmosphere (setting + plot) equal mood (reader’s feeling). 9. A touchstone was a piece of jasper used to determine the quality of gold; the word means a test of genuineness. Choose one of the following touchstone lines (or one of your own appropriate choosing) and apply it to a theme in the work. ▪ All the world’s a stage and the men and women merely players ▪ Fools rush in where angels fear to tread. ▪ When the going gets tough the tough get going. ▪ It was the best of times; it was the worst of times. ▪ Behind every great man is a great woman. ▪ Woman is man’s damnation. ▪ Absolute power corrupts absolutely. 10. Choose a touchstone line from the work and apply it to a character(s) in the work. 11. Discuss how a major or minor character violates or adheres to the conventions of his society and the result. 12. Discuss the effect of 2 mythological allusions in the work. 13. Discuss 2 of the characteristics of the period and how they are evident in the work. 14. (Man vs. Man; Man vs. Himself; Man vs. Nature; Man vs. Society)
American Literature - The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano
American Literature - The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano
Journal Instructions and Topic Choices Three journals are required during the semester. Journals must be written on current readings. Journals are due on Thursdays. Only one journal can be written per week. Journals need to written in MLA format. They should be AT LEAST 15 sentences and include a thesis that introduces the work, the author, and the journal topic. Journals are not summaries. If you choose to write on poetry, you will need to include at least THREE poems by the same author. Choose ONE of the following to address in your journal. 1. Apply 2 of the steps of characterization to a major or minor character in the work by discussing how the technique reveals something about his society. ▪ What a character says ▪ What a character does ▪ What a character looks like ▪ What others say about him ▪ What the author says about him 2. Apply 2 of the methods of evaluating literature to the work. ▪ Historical provenance ▪ Details of the lifestyle of the period ▪ Psychological accuracy ▪ Position in the history of literature ▪ Insight into the author’s perspective 3. Define the genre to which the work belongs and apply 2 parts to specific examples. 4. No scene of violence exists for its own sake. Choose a violent scene and discuss its relevance to 2 different characters, not how it relates to the plot. 5. List 2 themes of the work and for each briefly discuss how each is revealed through character, incident or symbol. . 6. Xerox and paste a significant passage onto the journal and explain it in terms of its significance to the work. 7. Choose 2 symbols in the work and discuss their significance to a specific character(s), or choose Journal Instructions and Topic Choices one symbol and discuss 2 different ways in which it is employed. 8. Discuss how tone (the author’s voice) combined with the atmosphere (setting + plot) equal mood (reader’s feeling). 9. A touchstone was a piece of jasper used to determine the quality of gold; the word means a test of genuineness. Choose one of the following touchstone lines (or one of your own appropriate choosing) and apply it to a theme in the work. ▪ All the world’s a stage and the men and women merely players ▪ Fools rush in where angels fear to tread. ▪ When the going gets tough the tough get going. ▪ It was the best of times; it was the worst of times. ▪ Behind every great man is a great woman. ▪ Woman is man’s damnation. ▪ Absolute power corrupts absolutely. 10. Choose a touchstone line from the work and apply it to a character(s) in the work. 11. Discuss how a major or minor character violates or adheres to the conventions of his society and the result. 12. Discuss the effect of 2 mythological allusions in the work. 13. Discuss 2 of the characteristics of the period and how they are evident in the work. 14. (Man vs. Man; Man vs. Himself; Man vs. Nature; Man vs. Society)
