What is racial profiling, and what Forth Amendment questions does it raise? 

Write a two-paragraph (10 sentences total) double-spaced statement with 2 or more takeaways obtained after reading the week’s chapter.

1) What is racial profiling, and what Forth Amendment questions does it raise? 

This discussion should contain  takeaways and  opinions written in the student’s own words. Quotations should be used sparingly and when used, the text should be included in quotes followed by the author, publication date and page (example: “Text quoted” (Schmid 2002, p. 17))

What insights have you gained in your work on the task force to encourage others to make decisions based on the data?

Assignment: Leading Change With Data and Collaboration

All members of Mayor Keller’s task force are committed to improving Grand City’s educational system and community from the perspective representative of his or her institution, role, or specialized expertise. The Grand City community at large is excited about the work being done and proposed by the task force. News of the changes has been spreading throughout the state and garnering interest among leaders in many of the surrounding communities. How might you address questions or concerns from others looking to become agents of change? What insights have you gained in your work on the task force to encourage others to make decisions based on the data?

For this Assignment, you will develop a motivational video for communities outside of Grand City planning their own initiatives for change.

Important Note: You will be required to upload your video file (and transcript) to the Module 3 Discussion 1 thread (Day 3 of Week 5) after submitting it as an Assignment in this module.

To prepare:

· Review the Cho et al. (2015) case study related to the installation of data systems in a school district. Consider how this example examines the challenges inherent in technological and organizational change.

· Review the Guidera (2015), Chenoweth (2015), and Marsh & Farrell (2015) articles. Think about the arguments for and against educational change based on data. How might you encourage others to support the use of data-informed decision making for educational and social change?

· Review the Sterrett and Irizarry (2015) and Morel (2014) articles. Reflect on the strengths of working collaboratively with all stakeholders as well as any challenges that might need to be overcome.

· In the City Hall location in Grand City, review the  District Collaboration for Change video. Imagine you are a member of the Grand City task force. How might you use what you have explored thus far with regard to change, collaboration, and data-informed decision making to motivate the neighboring district superintendent’s staff, faculty, and community leaders in their change efforts?

· Review the information regarding how to decrease the size of a video file and upload a video to a Discussion Forum in the Kaltura Media Uploader link under Course Home.

By Day 7 of Week 4

Create a 5- to 7-minute motivational video in which you explain:

· Who you are and the specialization expertise you represent on Mayor Keller’s task force.

· The importance of being an educational agent of change and why you believe collecting and interpreting data is essential to the role of educational leader of change.

· The importance of collaboration among cross-specialization groups working to make meaningful change, and why data-informed decision making is essential for a collaborative group to initiate and implement plans for educational and community change.

· Summarize the key points of your presentation.

Create a Word transcript of your video and citations to resources to meet ADA requirements.

Submit the Word transcript of your video and citations.

Evaluate the hardware components of modern computing environments and their individual functions.

For this final course discussion post, take a moment to review and reflect on the five course outcomes for Advanced Computer Architecture: Evaluate the hardware components of modern computing environments and their individual functions. Review the basic security implications of modern computing environments. Review foundational cybersecurity concepts and the federal, state and local cyber defense partners/structures. Research the applicable laws and policies related to cyber defense and describe the major components of each pertaining to the storage and transmission of data. Examine responsibilities related to the handling of data as it pertains to legal, ethical and/or agency auditing issues, and how the type of dispute affects the evidence used to resolve it. Please respond to the following in a post of at least 200 words: Identify the three to five core lessons you learned from taking this course. Describe how you plan to integrate these core lessons into your daily life. Determine the methods you will use to retain and revisit this information.

Factors affecting reaction rates according to the Collision Theory

Some chemical reactions go very fast, while others are very slow. For any reaction, the rate is affected by changes in temperature, concentration of reactants, reactant surface, and the addition of catalysts. Controlling the rate of reaction by changing certain reaction conditions is essential for either slow down unwanted reactions or accelerate chemical processes to increase productivity.

Write a research paper of 2-3 pages of discussion in APA format on the topic below. Be sure to use at least two reliable sources to document the information provided, including the textbook and a source from LIRN (see rubric on Blackboard for more details).

“ Factors affecting reaction rates according to the Collision Theory”

An analysis of how the articles apply to the current issue, including a critical evaluation of the premise, methodology, contributions, and limitations of each source

Wk3: Mini Lit Review

Research this week’s discussion topic: Developing leadership agility in a rapidly-changing business world. You will write a Mini Lit Review using at least four quality articles on the topic for this week. Your Mini Lit Review must include the following:

• An introduction that states your thesis and communicates the organization of the mini lit review
• An analysis of the topics, concepts, and theories central to your topic
• A discussion of the themes, debates, or gaps in the literature
• An analysis of how the articles apply to the current issue, including a critical evaluation of the premise, methodology, contributions, and limitations of each source
• A conclusion that summarizes the key points, discusses the implications, and ensures that your readers understand the key takeaways from your review
• Full bibliographic information (in APA format)

Source Requirements: Because this is a current trends course, some of your sources will come from periodicals, or non-scholarly sources. At least one-half of your references should come from scholarly resources.  Avoid low quality sources.  These include (but are not limited to) Wikipedia, many newspapers, many advocacy organizations and popular press articles.  Information from the Internet (such as a Google search) is rarely high quality and is not acceptable unless it is from a high-quality journal, periodical, or research source that is also published to the Web. Instead, please use library databases for your research.

describe two different theories psychologists have proposed to explain dreaming, and discuss the one you think best explains the way you experience dreaming and why.

describe two different theories psychologists have proposed to explain dreaming, and discuss the one you think best explains the way you experience dreaming and why. 

Explore the issues and respond to the content – assess the book’s themes and arguments: are they significant, clear or obscure, relevant or dated, overdrawn or realistic?

Public Private Partnerships

Book Review Assignment

Using the Halvorsen (2017) book review as a model, you are to write an integrated book/article

review where you review, integrate, relate, and compare the three readings for this week. The

primary focus of your review should be Empowering the Public-Private Partnership: The Future

of America’s Local Government by Senator George Voinovich. You should relate this book to

Vogelsang-Coombs et al.’s article on PPPs in administrations of Mayors Voinovich and Jackson

and Ostrower’s article on the pitfalls of PPPs. Think about how the main argument or thesis for

each article relates to the Voinovich book. What are the main ideas, challenges, and/or lessons on

PPPs for local governments outlined in these respective readings? Your review should be four

(4) pages double-spaced.

Additional helpful hints:

The following tips are taken from Dr. Judy Millesen’s book review assignment in the MPA 6200

course.

Writing a Book Review

A quick search on Google revealed a number of useful “guides” providing information about

how to write a book review. In general, the advice offered clusters around five key themes:

1. Read the book, the whole thing, and think about what it says – good book reviews are

intellectual statements in their own right, take the time necessary to do them well

2. Organize your thoughts and carefully consider what you want to say

3. A book review describes not summarizes – it is a critical, subjective analysis of what the

author wrote (key themes, characters, examples, conclusions, recommendations, etc.)

4. Explore the issues and respond to the content – assess the book’s themes and arguments:

are they significant, clear or obscure, relevant or dated, overdrawn or realistic?

5. Place your review within a broader context, whether that is your personal or professional

experience, current events, or other literature in the field.

Below are the links to a few of these sites:

Purdue University: http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/704/01/

Carleton College: http://apps.carleton.edu/curricular/history/study/criticalbookreview/

St. Cloud University: http://leo.stcloudstate.edu/acadwrite/bookrev.html

University of Wisconsin-Madison: http://www.wisc.edu/writing/Handbook/CriNonfiction.html

Concordia University: http://library.concordia.ca/help/howto/bookreports.html

Your book review should take the form of other reviews written for an academic audience. It

should focus on what scholars and practitioners (particularly since public administration is an

applied field) can and cannot lean from the general themes developed in the book. Book reviews

regularly appear in many of the public administration journals (e.g., Public Administration

Review, The Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory).”

Using your chosen company’s domestic environment identify its economic environment and compare and contrast it with your selected global economic environment using Rostow and Galbraith

Course Objectives:

Students will become familiar with business theories and approaches relating to various business environments (Domestic, Global, Technological, Political-Legal, Socio-Cultural, and Economic).

Students will evaluate the business environments and practices of selected companies.

Students will evaluate the business environments of a company identified as a “worst” company to learn why it is not successful.

Students will apply successful company strategies and business theory to recommend a successful strategy for the “worst” company.

The economic environment comprises of economic factors, such as employment, income, inflation, interest rates, productivity, and wealth, which influence the buying behavior of consumers and firms. This week you will analyze the economic environment of both your domestic and global countries for your chosen “Worst” company. Continue to Lesson 7 for more information and details.

LO – 7 – Given two economic theories, the student will compare and contrast each theory using a chosen company’s Domestic and Global environments

Prompt:

Continue working with your chosen worst company and its industry and write a paper covering the following:

Using your chosen company’s domestic environment identify its economic environment and compare and contrast it with your selected global economic environment using Rostow and Galbraith (see Lesson and Required Readings).

Instructions: (See Attachments also.)

Organize your paper using topic headings (APA format).

This paper contributes part of your your material for your Final Simulation that details the items above.

Research requirement: minimum 2 sources with at least one source from your required readings.

Minimum page requirement: 2 pages in APA format.

Submit Assignment 7 by midnight, Day 7, week 7.

For further guidance please review the Grading Rubric for this and all assignments for guidance in preparing your paper.

What need or problem does your product or service address in the market?

This will be a fun discussion! In 200 – 300 words tell your classmates about your business idea by answering these questions:

• What product or service will your company offer?
• What need or problem does your product or service address in the market?
• Who is your target customer? What will your most successful customer look like?
• How will you differentiate yourself in the market? What will your company do better than anybody else?
• Why will your company matter? Why will it be important?

After you make your post, engage with at least one other classmate and help him or her consider one or two challenges that the new company may face in getting off the ground.Don’t worry about APA formatting on this assignment. Just have a conversation and help each other out! 

identify and discuss at least one aspect about WWI that you believe historians should focus on. What do you think is the most important story about WWI?

Read Chapters 18 and 19 in Give Me Liberty textbook.

This discussion asks you to apply the concepts from the module’s readings to present your thoughts on a major event in U.S. History. This practice helps you to develop the skill of engaging with sources. You have the opportunity here to practice applying, translating, and re-working what you have learned to function in unexpected ways.

1. Recall key events, figures, and ideas of WWI and the interwar period in the United States. 2. Contextualize, criticize, defend, and debate significant ideas found in historical primary sources of

WWI and the interwar period in the United States.

Discussion Prompt World War I essentially determined the trajectory of twentieth-century world history, and the conflict had an important impact on American history. The historiography on WWI is immense, with historians (from all over the world) taking a number of different perspectives, contributing different arguments about the significance of the conflict, and examining a wide range of issues and topics.

This discussion asks you to identify and discuss at least one aspect about WWI that you believe historians should focus on. What do you think is the most important story about WWI? If you were writing a history about WWI, what would you write about? What is the experience that students of WWI absolutely need to know about? What is the story that needs to be told? What is most significant about WWI history? What is the “big take away”? Your answer can focus on the American, European, or global historical experience.

Your response to the question(s) needs to first identify in the introduction at least one part of WWI history that you find most interesting/significant—the big takeaway(s). Then the remaining page should explain why. The explanation needs incorporate historical evidence. The discussion should not be a “general history.”