Is it important to volunteer your time? Why or why not?
(1) Is it important to volunteer your time? Why or why not?
(2) What motivates people to volunteer? Are those reasons good or bad reasons, in your opinion?
(3) After you graduate, will you continue to serve in your community? Why or why not? (Answer honestly!)
(4) Did volunteering through Concorde change your perspective on anything? If so, please explain.
Define and describe what a carbon footprint is.
Below are the instructions for the ePortfolio project.
Answer the first 3 questions along with what the apps estimate is your initial carbon footprint.
Then I want you to come up with an idea for what you will do for #4.
As this is going to be a short paper put everything in paragraph form, written in complete sentences and cited correctly.
Link for citation guide and templates. https://library.broadview.edu/apa
1. Select at least 2 of the apps to use.
2. Define and describe what a carbon footprint is.
3. Compare/contrast how each app. tracks your carbon footprint (differences in the questions they ask, and how they collect data). Which do you think was better – and why.
4. What is your carbon footprint. Did it change over the semester . . . did you edit any of the information in the app. like keeping track of exactly how many miles a week you drive.
5. What can you do with this information? Can you change something that would decrease your carbon footprint – and if so is it something that the app. tracks, did you change it, and how much did it affect your footprint – be sure to take screen shots to use in the project before and after so you have a visual reference to refer to in the paper.
Identify a specific focus area in the healthcare industry that could increase revenue.
Scenario
Healthy Dynamics is a corporate wellness company that provides a broad range of wellness services for clients seeking to improve the health and wellbeing of their employees. One of the clients of Healthy Dynamics is not happy with their employee wellness program participation rates. Healthy Dynamics is not meeting the contract requirements of 60% engagement, resulting in lost revenue for the company and no return on investment (ROI) for the client. According to the contractual agreement, Healthy Dynamics must pay back the client $200,000,000 if the annual participation percentage is not met. Currently the client’s wellness program includes financial incentives for the employees if they complete the following wellness offerings (health assessment, biometric screening, and telephonic health coaching). The Healthy Dynamics CEO is now foreseeing a need to offer other healthcare services. The CEO has asked the Account Manager to create a business plan focused on increasing revenue and identifying risk that might negatively impact their continued relationship with the client. The Account Manager has tasked you, the Strategic Planning Manager, with preparing an internal memo to present to the CEO and to communicate to your internal team what you are envisioning as a desired future focus area to increase the bottom line for Healthy Dynamics and improve current and future client satisfaction rates.
Instructions
Develop an internal memorandum that includes:
- A detailed description defining the differences between business planning and strategic planning in healthcare.
- Identify a specific focus area in the healthcare industry that could increase revenue.
- Create key questions that you will need to address in the development of your strategic plan for your focus area.
Create a workflow analysis flow chart that includes:
- A list of healthcare leadership team members (e.g., CEO, Strategic Planning Manager, Account Manager, Marketing Manager, Project Manager, Financial Analyst, etc.,)
- A comprehensive analysis of each team member’s roles and responsibilities in the development of the strategic plan. ( **this part must be in a paragraph/paper form**
- Your assignment should include a title page, a reference page, and a minimum of three scholarly sources, two of which must be retrieved from the Rasmussen Library.
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Detailed description defining the differences between business planning and strategic planning in healthcare in a well-written internal memorandum.
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Clearly identified a specific focus area in the healthcare industry that could increase revenue in a well-written internal memorandum.
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Created detailed questions needed to address the development of a strategic plan in a well-written internal memorandum.
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Created a comprehensive list of healthcare leadership team members in the workflow analysis flow chart.
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Created a comprehensive analysis of each team member’s roles and responsibilities in the development of the strategic plan.
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Used and identified three or more credible sources in the memorandum
list aspects of yourself that you would like to change
• First create 3 private lists for yourself during the second week of the
term. (You may want to continue adding to these lists across the term.)
• Personal list #1: list aspects of yourself that you would like to
change
• Personal list #2: list aspects of your life that you would like to
change
• Personal list #3: list situations in the world that you would like to
change
Please make your lists with focus and a determined personal commitment to
seriously engage each of the aspects and situations that you name. These lists
are your private, personal meditation for your own use and should not be shared
or handed in.
On the first page, describe a ritual that is already part of your life. This ritual
can be an unconscious or semiconscious element of your life. Perhaps you’ll
only become aware of it by looking deeply. It could be an activity or series of
gestures that you’ve inherited, it could be something that you’ve seen or heard
that has inspired you, or it can be a ritual that you yourself have created for
yourself and the circumstances of your life. Please write with as much insight
and detail as you can. Perhaps there is a ritual you’ve created in response to
stress, panic, or a moment in your life where you needed to break through to
deeper meaning, to a different kind of fulfillment, in the face of failure, or
abandonment, or despair. Perhaps this ritual is crucial to your survival, your
wellbeing, your self-confidence and your sense of direction. Perhaps it is a
shared ritual that joins you to family or friends or to a supportive community.
Perhaps this ritual is organized, regular, repetitive, cumulative, and consistent,
or perhaps it is random or something that you’ve only done once in your life.
Please write with as much insight and detail as you can.
On page two of the 2-page assignment, please describe how you will
transform, adapt, or repurpose your existing ritual to address one of the topics
on your private list. Please write with as much insight and detail as you can.
Across the term, you will hand in eight 2-page papers that will describe the
first steps of the dedicated, conscious invention and formation of new rituals to
guide your life.
What do you feel are the two most significant issues (e.g. economic, social/cultural, political/governmental/legal, environmental, technological) facing the MEEC industry as we move forward over the next five years?
No plagiarism
Module III Discussion #1
Given today’s economic (US recession and global economic volatility, market fluctuations, etc.) and political realities (health care, Employee Free Choice Act [EFCA], Troubled Assets Relief Program [TARP], political and public scrutiny and possible regulation of corporate spending on events and meetings, etc.) – (a) What do you feel are the two most significant issues (e.g. economic, social/cultural, political/governmental/legal, environmental, technological) facing the MEEC industry as we move forward over the next five years? (b) Why (justify your perspective)? (c) In your opinion, how are the issues you identified going to impact the MEEC industry? Please, be as specific as possible in your responses. Also, provide references.
As an event planner, what marketing advice would you offer to organizers to increase attendance and community awareness?
Module III Discussion #3
Take a look at the Dog Days of Denton event held each year. As an event planner, what marketing advice would you offer to organizers to increase attendance and community awareness?
References
Why would a company like Chevron invest so much capital in a project with so many risks?
Instructions
For the final unit, you will read the mini-case on page 483 of your textbook: “Tengiz—The Definition of Political Risk.” After reading and analyzing the case, answer the questions below, which can also be found on page 486 of the textbook.
Why would a company like Chevron invest so much capital in a project with so many risks?
How had Chevron tried to mitigate the political risks of the project?
Had the risks associated with Tengiz changed or evolved over time?
Your submission must be at least two pages in length. Use the knowledge you have gained during this course to answer these questions. Outside sources are not required, but if used, please adhere to APA Style when creating citations and references. APA formatting is not necessary.
search the news archives or your memory and tell us about an issue involving water that struck a chord with you.
In this discussion you will share three things.
First, go to MyWaterwayEPA and tell us which watershed you live in. Start by typing in your zip code(58104). Then, you can click on the map the exact location of your house/farm. This will bring you to a precise watershed for you.
Second, follow your water all the way to an ocean, naming the rivers and cities/states/countries along the way (if applicable). This link will help MN people get started: MN Basins. Note that the colors and associated names at the outside of the map give the major river that will head to an ocean. You may have to google after that. Other states may have a similar thing, you will need to search.
Third, search the news archives or your memory and tell us about an issue involving water that struck a chord with you. Keep it as close to home as possible, but state or national issues are OK. Be specific!
No reading or reply requirements for this one.
Explain in your own words four objections to Moral Relativism.
First, watch the Crash Course Philosophy #32: Metaethics video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOoffXFpAlULinks to an external site.)
Second, read Chapter 1 in Matthews and Hendricks On Moral Relativism and Subjectivism
https://press.rebus.community/intro-to-phil-ethics/chapter/arent-right-and-wrong-just-matters-of-opinion-on-moral-relativism-and-subjectivism/Links to an external site.
Third, prepare your Short Paper 1(1-2 typed pages, full directions below) covering the following topics:
1. A. Describe in your own words these three schools of Moral Relativism:
Descriptive Relativism, Metaethical Relativism, and Normative Relativism.
B. Create at least one ORIGINAL example to illustrate the thinking of at least one of these schools.
2. A. Explain in your own words four objections to Moral Relativism.
B. Create at least one ORIGINAL example to illustrate an objection.
3. Conclude by telling me which school of Metaethics is most appealing to you and why.
General instructions for Short Papers are pasted below:
The purpose of the Short Papers is threefold. First, it helps you demonstrate your evolving mastery of the course outcomes. Second, it gives you a chance to clarify your thinking around the overall theme of the course. And third, it encourages you to keep up with the course material!
You will have eight chances to write Short papers. Each paper will come at the end of one of the video and readings found in our schedule.
Here is what you need to do:
Give your paper an interesting, descriptive title. You must use at least two quotes. One quote from the assigned reading and one quote from the video, no longer than a sentence. Cite the last name of article author, and the video (his name is Hank Green). You may use up to three quotes, but at least 80% of the paper needs to be in your own words. Since there is no lecture, this assures me that you have read and understood the content of the course. You must therefore have some mention of at least three different sections of the readings/ video. Later you will be asked to connect the current topic with previous readings.
List both in your references at the end, along with anything else you cited .
Sample References:
Green, H. (2016). Metaethics: Crash course philosophy #32. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOoffXFpAlULinks to an external site.
Rezalla, P. (2019). Chapter 1: Aren’t Right and Wrong Just Matters of Opinion? ON Moral Relativism and Subjectivism. In Introduction to Philosophy: Ethics, eds. Hendricks, C., & Matthews, G. Rebus. https://press.rebus.community/intro-to-phil-ethics/chapter/kantian-deontology/
You will be given more specific instructions week by week, but the main point is to show that you are considering the content, rather than memorizing it. You may be asked to quote what you most agreed with/ disagreed with in the reading and explain why. Make sure they are your reasons, but that they are believable. DO NOT SIMPLY REPEAT THE SUMMARY AND ATTACH YOUR PREFERENCES! Telling me that you agree is not telling me why you agree.
Proofread your paper BEFORE you submit it. The best way to do this is to read it out-loud to yourself. You will catch more mistakes this way. Also, if it sounds funny to you (and isn’t a quote), it probably reads funny to me! If you’re having trouble, consider going to the virtual Writing Center (appointment needed).
When this is all done, you should have something between 400 and 600 words. That is at least one full page, but no more than two. Use TNR 12, double-spaced with 1-inch margins.
Here are some more tips and guidelines:
Please double-space; it’s easier on the eyes! Failure to double-space will lose you 2 points off of style. Please set your word processor to do this. Hitting Enter at the end of each line, like you are on your grandmother’s old typewriter, is tedious for you and annoying for me! Doing that will lose 2 points off of style as well! (If you think that this happened because of conversion to Rich Text Format, please let me know.)
Even if you totally don’t know what is going on, try to write a paper, anyway.
Once you write the first paper, review my comments on the corrected version before you write the second paper. I tend to get increasingly impatient when people make the same sorts of mistakes repeatedly.
Remember, your reflection needs to be your own, but is not definitive. If we had the definitive word on these things, you would be studying them in a science class!
Try your best to keep your argument free of logical fallacies. Of course, this is not logic class, so this is something of a moving target. But at the very least, I identify that you have committed some kind of fallacy on one paper, you should not repeat it on others.
Did I mention proofreading?
Have a title relevant to the content of your paper.
Style: The paper is written in a style appropriate to a college Humanities class, with proper grammar, spelling, word use, sentence structure, paragraph structure, etc. All quotes are properly cited, using last name of the author and page. Previous style comments have been followed.
How was the sample determined and contacted? Or was it Secondary Data?
Critique of Thesis Instructions
CRITIQUE of THESIS
Instructions:
Select a thesis (or dissertation) from the Electronic ProQuest Dissertation Database in an area that fits your
professional and academic knowledge goals.
The thesis must be from a college/university in the United States.
After reading and analyzing the complete thesis, complete the following questions.
Number in bold indicates points per question.
Specifically, what is the purpose of this research? 2
What type of research is conducted? Primary – qualitative, quantitative, mixed? Secondary? Identify 1 and describe. 3
Does the author use or reference a theory or theories? Explain. Alternatively, is there no sign of theory? 2
What are the listed limitations of the study? 1
Do you feel that they are accurate? What could be done to reduce limitations in a replication of this study? 2
Who are the research participants – population and sample? How was the sample determined and contacted? Or was it Secondary Data? 2
Are they the appropriate population for this study? Do they accurately represent this study to be able to generalize from the results? If Secondary Data – was it appropriate for this study? Did it provide sufficient detail? 2
What is the “So What?” of this research? What has been added to the body of academic and/or professional knowledge? 2
What are the implications for future research from the author? 1
What would you add for future research? 2
APA reference of the thesis. 1
Format for submission:
Submit your word file and highlighted PDF of the thesis.
Typed, 1” margins, 12 point font. Follow the APA 7th Edition Style Manual for referencing.
Use this format to reference the thesis:
Author, A. A. (Year). Title of thesis (Publication No.) [Master’s thesis, Name of Institution Awarding the Degree]. Database Name.
For example:
Su, H. W. (2019). The effects of benefit types on customer loyalty in integrated resorts (Publication No. 27592340) [Master’s thesis, University of North Texas]. ProQuest Dissertations and Theses Global.
