develop a position paper supporting or opposing the issue.
Your final project for this course will occur in three parts, each with a grade. Please read the instructions carefully, ask questions early, and pay attention to due dates. There will be NO LATE WORK for this assignment – the window to grade and input final grades is too short to allow for late submissions.
Step 1: An argument
You will pick a contemporary issue that creates divisiveness when discussed. This issue should be a political or social issue that has relevance and implications for populations aside from you. Once you have selected an issue, you will develop a position paper supporting or opposing the issue. Your argument should include an easily identifiable claim, at least three warrants to support the claim, and backing for each warrant. Your supporting material should include a variety of evidence types, and should NOT be based on biased, far-leaning news outlets (left or right). While you are not being graded on your political opinions, you need to make sure you are supporting your ideas, not simply expressing your beliefs with no formalization.
Step 2:
Create a rebuttal to your position paper in step 1. Your rebuttal should include a claim, a refutation of the warrants you used in the position paper, and at least one new warrant supporting the rebuttal. Again, this rebuttal should include a variety of evidence types, avoiding far-leaning biased sources. It should directly oppose your position paper and be structured in a way that would cause a shift in attitude for individuals who support your position paper.
Step 3: An analysis of the importance of Argument
Using the position paper and your rebuttal, discuss why argumentation is necessary and important in society. Your analysis should include at least three specific theory elements from the course and should address the use of the argumentative tools you learned about in this course. This is an evaluation of your understanding of course content AND your ability to apply that knowledge in practical ways.
Describe at least two examples of short-term financial needs that the organization either has or might have.
Respond to two or more of your colleagues’ posts in one or more of the following ways: (150 words each Colleague)
Present an additional idea for a short-term financial need your colleague’s organization might have.
Provide an additional perspective on whether your colleague’s selected organization should have low, moderate, or high amounts of working capital, or an additional perspective on your colleague’s rationale.
Offer an additional suggestion for how your colleague’s selected organization could improve its cash position to address its short-term financial needs.
Return to this Discussion in a few days to read the responses to your initial posting. Note what you have learned or any insights you have gained as a result of the comments your colleagues made.
Describe at least two examples of short-term financial needs that the organization either has or might have. Be sure to include specific details to support your descriptions.
What is the median age when respondents were told they had diabetes for those living in Pennsylvania?
These data come from https://www.kaggle.com/cdc/behavioral-risk-factor-surveillance-system
To answer these questions you will need to use the codebook on Brightspace, called codebook15_llcp.pdf. Please note that not all of the variables listed in the codebook are included in the .csv file to be downloaded from Brightspace.
The answer to each question should be assigned to the value before the colon. For example, the answer to the first question should be assigned to Q1.
Use plenty of comments throughout your code so that the grader can follow your line of thinking.
Q1: How many people reported their general health is excellent?
Q2. What is the highest value for number of adult women in the household where someone has ever had a stroke? Summarise the value in a variable called max_numwomen.
Q3: Compute the means and standard deviations for MENTHLTH comparing caregivers who managed personal care such as giving medications, feeding, dressing, or bathing and those who did not. The output should be a dataframe. It should be formatted like this:
CRGVPERS mean_health sd_health
1 5.23 xxx.xx
2 xxx.xx xxx.xx
Q4: What is the median age when respondents were told they had diabetes for those living in Pennsylvania? Only calculate it for those who gave an age. The value should be called med.diab.age and be in a 1 x 1 dataframe.
Q5: Predict number of days in the past 30 days mental health was not good from marital status. Assign the summary of the model to Q5.
Q6: Use summarise to compare the mean number of days in the past 30 days mental health was not good by marital status and assign to Q6 as a dataframe. Round to two decimals. The mean should be called mean_mental. You should be able to confirm the results of Q5 after creating this.
Q7: Calculate the means and standard deviations of MENTHLTH for those who have had a stroke and those who have not had a stroke only for those who do not have any kind of healthcare coverage. The output should be a dataframe assigned to Q7, and be formatted like this:
xxx mean_mental sd_mental
1 8.89 xxx.xx
2 xxx.xx xxx.xx
Q8: Run an ANOVA comparing how many times per week respondents took part in the exercise they spent the most time doing in the past month by marital status, and assign the TukeyHSD post-hoc test to Q8. (You may need to look up how to do this in R. Note: The general instructions say to round all output but the TukeyHSD function output is not able to be rounded.)
Q9: Calculate the variance in number of days a respondent drank alcohol in the past week for each type of physical activity or exercise spent in the past month for men. Note: Pay special attention to how values are coded in the Codebook.
Arrange in descending order, and include only the six with the highest variance in drinks.
The output should be a 6 X 2 dataframe, rounded to two decimals and look like:
EXRACT11 var_drinks
55 xxx.xx
xxx.xx xxx.xx
xxx.xx xxx.xx
xxx.xx 6.67
xxx.xx xxx.xx
xxx.xx xxx.xx
For the final section, you will choose four variables to explore in ways we have not. Complete the following:
Q10: Address the values of any variables. For instance, is “none” equal to a value other than 0? Are there extra decimals implied?
Q11: Remove any outliers. Briefly explain why you chose the method you used. Make sure to comment it out.
Q12: Complete exploratory analyses doing appropriate visualizations with ggplot2.
Q13: Run basic descriptive statistics.
Q14: Finally, run an appropriate regression predicting one of those variables. Identify the best model.
Your answers must be clearly identifiable. Take time to tidy your code once you are finished. The easier it is for us to understand, the more partial credit you could receive.
How would you do/get better when you align your experience with IT project management?
Wk3 490 dq2 100-150 words
Share your experience of one of your techniques being used for scope validation. Why was the technique you used a success or failure? How would you do/get better when you align your experience with IT project management?
how can this knowledge help you to support your employees more successfully?
Prior to beginning work on this discussion, read Chapter 9 in the course textbook and the articles Careers in Health Psychology Links to an external site., Pursuing a Career in Health Psychology Links to an external site., and Clinical Health Psychology Links to an external site..
Health psychology can be applied in numerous settings. Whether you are a health clinician, a leader within an organization, a daycare provider, a parent, or a licensed psychologist, understanding how one’s health can affect one’s psychological well-being is an important area for consideration.
Based on your goals, address all of the following topics associated with health psychology and how you can potentially use this information to support your goals, whether in the health field or other discipline. Remember that you can use your knowledge in these areas in differing ways. For example, if you are working in HR, you may be able to use this knowledge to support employee wellness. If you are working as an educator, confidentiality is very important.
Topics to discuss:
Nutrition and Exercise
Effective Stress Management
Confidentiality
Cultural Competence
For example, if you are going to graduate school to become a licensed clinical psychologist, how will this information help your clients? If you are a daycare provider, how could this be applied when designing activities for children? If you desire to be a manager or leader in an organization, how can this knowledge help you to support your employees more successfully?
As you discuss each area, be critically aware of appropriately applying APA-formatted citations to support your assertions about the topic. For additional support, see the resource Citing Within Your Paper Links to an external site..
Discussion posts should equate to approximately 350 to 400 words.
Peer Responses: Review several of your classmates’ posts. Provide a substantive response to at least two of your peers in a minimum of 200 words. Share your ideas about how health psychology could be applied to the future goals they have identified. Offer insight, based on your own perspective and understanding of health psychology and the specific content addressed. Identify at least one area of application that your peer did not include.
Instructor Responses: Review any instructor feedback on your postings. Often feedback is shared to help you to elevate your level of critical thought or make corrections. Reply based on this feedback to advance your understanding of the content addressed.
Continue to monitor this discussion through 5:00 p.m. (Mountain Time) on Day 7 of the week. Comment on at least one of your classmates’ responses to your initial post, in addition to your two peer postings, if applicable.
Remember that discussion forums should be conversations; dialogue is encouraged throughout this course. Your grade will reflect the quality of your initial post, the depth of your peer replies, and your active support of forum dialogue.
What is the risk of making career decisions based on job prospects alone?
Preparing for the Next Steps in Your Career
Yolanda Harper, PhD—Ashford University
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Learning Objectives
After reading this chapter, you should be able to
⦁ Identify common psychology-related career paths for different degree levels (i.e., bachelor’s, master’s, doctorate).
⦁ Compare theories of career development and decision making.
⦁ Summarize strategies for presenting yourself as a strong candidate for jobs in psychology or related fields.
⦁ Summarize strategies for presenting yourself as a strong candidate for graduate or professional school.
Olivia, a Certified Alcohol Drug Counselor Associate (CADCA), wants to become a National Certified Addiction Counselor, Level II (NCAC II; https://www.naadac.org/ncac-ii). After researching career paths to becoming an addictions counselor, Olivia decided she would pursue certification with a bachelor’s degree. She enrolled in an online university so she could continue in her current job, and she is majoring in psychology. To gain some broader experience, last year, she volunteered at the Council on Alcoholism and Drug Abuse. After graduation and certification as an NCAC II, she will be able to put her new knowledge into practice. Eventually, she would like to earn her master’s degree in psychology and complete the requirements to become a Master Addiction Counselor (MAC; https://www.naadac.org/mac).
In school, Olivia is passionate about her major. She loves her classes and her work experience enhances the quality of her academic performance. She knows she needs at least a 3.0 GPA to have good prospects for graduate school, and she has a 3.5 overall GPA and a 3.75 GPA in her major. She joined APA Division 50: Society of Addiction Psychology (https://addictionpsychology.org/) as a student affiliate as well as other professional groups. Oliva worked with a mentor to develop her professional LinkedIn profile. She sets aside one hour per week to engage in LinkedIn groups and networking. With the support of one of her instructors, Olivia gave a presentation at an online conference sponsored by her university.
Like many students, Ruben started college without a real commitment to any particular major. He started out declaring business as a major because he figured he could get a job with a business degree. Unfortunately, he did not find his business classes interesting. Instead, Ruben found that he liked his introductory psychology class and decided to change his major to psychology. He decided to be an addictions counselor. Having struggled with alcohol in his adolescent and early college years, Ruben believed he could use his experience to motivate others to give up their addictions. Ruben’s parents and fiancé were happy to learn he had chosen a career with good job prospects. Ruben was happy, too, until he began having difficulty with his upper division psychology classes.
Ruben loved to talk to people and give advice, but he did not like to read much and hated writing papers. After failing several papers and being turned in for plagiarism twice, Ruben once again began to reconsider his choice of a major. He unlocked his phone and searched “top careers in demand” as a first step toward selecting a new major. Most of the top jobs would require him to change majors, and greatly extend the time it will take him to graduate, or go to graduate school, where he’d have to write even more papers. He decides to put off thinking about making a career decision until after he graduates. He plans to apply for whatever he finds available that requires a bachelor’s degree. With both Olivia and Ruben in mind, consider the following questions:
⦁ What mistakes did Ruben make in his career decision process?
⦁ Give examples of career decisions Olivia made that demonstrate good judgment.
⦁ What is the risk of making career decisions based on job prospects alone?
⦁ Is your career development process more like Olivia’s or Ruben’s?
Some make the mistake of choosing a career based on salary or employment prospects alone. Of course, it is advisable to research employment trends and income potential; however, job market information should not be the sole consideration when making a career decision. Career advisors recommend basing career decisions on both your own personal characteristics and occupational information. Career decision making should begin with an understanding of who you are. This chapter presents a number of topics for consideration related to your career development.
Explain the role of agribusiness and farmer acceptance
Monsanto vs. Schmeiser case.
this is the grading rubric:
1. All topics were discussed in clear detail.
2. Author supported assertions correctly.
3. Ideas were inter-related coherently and logically.
4. Author creatively enhances the topic.
5. Addresses Monsanto’s probable reasons related to increased crop production
6. Discusses role of government in approving genetically-engineered crops
7. Explain the role of agribusiness and farmer acceptance
8. Impact of anti-biotech campaigns is addressed
9. States opinion about Monsanto and its operations from a bioethical standpoint
10. States opinion about how Monsanto and Schmeiser case has affected public opinion of Monsanto.
ORGANIZATION (25%)
11. An introduction previews main points of study
12. Body of paper develops and elaborates main ideas.
13. A conclusion summarizes main points.
WRITING MECHANICS and STYLE (25%)
14. Paper free of mechanical errors (e.g., misspellings, typos, etc.)
15.. Paper grammatically sound (proper sentence structure)
16. Citations and references in proper style (e.g., APA).
What marketing techniques can be used to appeal to the young and healthy and encourage them to enroll in health insurance plans?
The uninsured healthy and young take good health for granted, place a high emphasis on the experience of care, are tech-savvy, and have low motivation to enroll in health insurance plans. Discuss the following for this assignment:
- What marketing techniques can be used to appeal to the young and healthy and encourage them to enroll in health insurance plans?
The use of APA Style and scholarly references published within the last 5 years is required.
Select the strategy the organization should pursue
As you have known since Week 1, during this week, we had a manager who shared details about her nonprofit organization. Each group worked in a strategic management plan to help in her efforts in (1) securing funding for We2AreVets 501c3 and (2) hiring one to three people with low salaries. Here is the video for reference:
- Title page
- Table of contents
- Introduction
- Identification of the organization’s current mission, goals, and strategies
- Environment analysis — SWOT analysis (at least three per section)
- External environment
- Opportunities (3)
- Threats (3)
- Internal environment
- Strengths (3)
- Weaknesses (3)
- External environment
- Formulate at least two alternative strategies
- Select the strategy the organization should pursue
- Explain how the organization should implement the strategy selected
- Explain how the organization will evaluate the results
- Final conclusion to wrap up all the topics covered in the content
- Reference page
- Page limit: 15 pages (not including the title page and reference list)
- Font: Times New Roman or Arial, size 12
- Paper must include a reference page, and all the references should follow APA format
explain the algorithm used for the analysis and why it was chosen for the dataset
- Write a 1500-2000 words-long project report.
- Your final report should outline the key findings of your data analysis as well as suggestions for how your intended audience should respond to your findings.
- Your project report should include 4-8 charts. You can use the charts you have submitted in project showcase.
- Your final report is expected to be brief rather than a long, detailed report.
- Your project report should not include a table of contents or bibliography.
- Your project report should be written as if it were addressed to your intended audience (CEO of a company or a manager) rather than to your statistics professor.
- At the top of your first page, include a brief description of who the intended audience is.
- Include in your report a clear recommendation for your audience of what steps (i.e. hire an advertising manager, rent a new facility, advertise more, shut down the business, etc.) they should take in response to your analysis.
- R programming should be used for analysis and coding, with a brief explanation of code included in the.qmd file.
- explain the algorithm used for the analysis and why it was chosen for the dataset
- should analyze using either regression or classification models and explain the outcomes
