Explain what is the Moving Forward program
The Veteran’s Administration (VA) has an Internet-based program title, “Moving Forward.” Moving Forward is a program developed for veterans, but available to the broad community. Specific insight and skills are explored and introduced such as, “types of problem-solving.”
1. Complete all Moving Forward (Links to an external site.) program modules.
2. Submit a written reflection, where you will give an overview of the program, reflect on how this program specifically applies to you, and identify which principles of Community Psychology are incorporated into this program. More specifically, your entry must cover the following:
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· Explain what is the Moving Forward program (3 points)
· Describe what type of problem-solver you are, based upon the quiz in the program (3 points)
· Describe what strategies you’ve learned regarding problem-solving (3 points)
· Comment on 8 Core Values of Community Psychology (3 points)
· Comment, overall, on whether or not you think the Moving Forward program meets the spirit of Community Psychology by James Kelly if it is applied to this program (3 points)
What is deep learning? What can deep learning do that traditional machine-learning methods cannot?
Chapter: 6
- What is deep learning? What can deep learning do that traditional machine-learning methods cannot?
- List and briefly explain different learning paradigms/methods in AI.
- What is representation learning, and how does it relate to machine learning and deep learning?
- List and briefly describe the most commonly used ANN activation functions.
- What is MLP, and how does it work? Explain the function of summation and activation weights in MLP-type ANN.
- Cognitive computing has become a popular term to define and characterize the extent of the ability of machines/computers to show “intelligent” behavior. Thanks to IBM Watson and its success on Jeopardy!, cognitive computing and cognitive analytics are now part of many real-world intelligent systems. In this exercise, identify at least three application cases where cognitive computing was used to solve complex real-world problems. Summarize your findings in a professionally organized report.
When submitting work, be sure to include an APA 7 cover page and include at least two APA formatted references (and APA in-text citations) to support the work this week.
All work must be original (not copied from any source). Create a one MS word Document for all
What is an artificial neural network and for what types of problems can it be used?
- What is an artificial neural network and for what types of problems can it be used?
- Compare artificial and biological neural networks. What aspects of biological networks are not mimicked by artificial ones? What aspects are similar?
- What are the most common ANN architectures? For what types of problems can they be used?
- ANN can be used for both supervised and unsupervised learning. Explain how they learn in a supervised mode and in an unsupervised mode.
- Go to Google Scholar (scholar.google.com). Conduct a search to find two papers written in the last five years that compare and contrast multiple machine-learning methods for a given problem domain. Observe commonalities and differences among their findings and prepare a report to summarize your understanding.
- Go to neuroshell.com. Look at Gee Whiz examples. Comment on the feasibility of achieving the results claimed by the developers of this neural network model.
How many questions will you have at each level for your standard?
Assignment 3
Standard RL 6.4 Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative and connotative meanings; analyze the impact of a specific word choice on meaning and tone.
Summative Test Blueprint (*This assignment must be approved by your professor before you can submit your summative assessment next week, so be sure to plan accordingly.) Now that you have practiced writing questions at various levels of rigor, create a blueprint (table) of how you will construct your summative test for your unit. Refer back to your reading from Week 1. You must have three levels of rigor. How many questions will you have at each level for your standard? This should be a good representation of each level. Level 1 questions should NOT be the majority of your test – keep the total under 1/3 of the total questions. Remember, you are not yet creating your questions. You are developing a plan as to how many questions you will have at each depth of knowledge. Your test should contain a minimum of 25 questions and should focus on higher-level questions.
Identify the behaviors (if any) that you believe violate standards in the Educator Code of Ethics.
SCENARIO 1: Immediately after she graduated college, Coach Parnell began coaching volleyball, track, and soccer and teaching Algebra I and II at Deer Springs High School. She has been there for almost 3 years. In early May, Coach Parnell joined a dating app that locates singles in the area. Not long after joining, a 19-year-old senior at Deer Springs HS, saw Coach Parnell’s dating profile and indicated, via the app, that he would be interested in going out on a date with her. When she saw this, Coach Parnell, sent the student a message stating that, even though he was 19, she could not date him until after graduation in less than a month. The student responded, letting her know that he couldn’t wait take her out on a date, and the two decided to set up a time to meet for dinner the day after graduation ceremonies. Coach Parnell let the student know that there could be no further communication between the two of them until then, and that he couldn’t tell anyone about the conversation they’d had so far. She let him know that she was excited to be able to go out with him, but she could not pursue anything further until the date they had set up. This student had never been in Coach Parnell’s Algebra class, nor had he played any of the sports that she coached. As planned, the day after graduation, Coach Parnell and the now former Deer Springs High School student went out on a date and continued to see each other for the next 8 months. 1. Identify the behaviors (if any) that you believe violate standards in the Educator Code of Ethics. 2. Which standards do you think were violated? Explain your reasoning. If you feel that no standards were violated, explain your reasoning. 3. Should Coach Parnell have handled this situation differently so as not to violate the Code of Ethics, or (if you feel that there was no violation) to avoid their actions being called into question?
How does Concentric Zone Theory apply to your selected city?
Concentric Zone Theory
Park and Burgess used Concentric Zone Theory to break up the city of Chicago into five zones. They used the theory to explain why crime occurs in each zone. Although this was created and applied to the city of Chicago, in this assignment, you will apply this theory to your city (you can use your city or a neighboring city).
Create a presentation of 5 to 7 slides in Microsoft PowerPoint and address the following:
Where is the crime occurring in your selected city? Include specific examples using crime mapping of your selected city, characteristics of housing within each zone, and types of crimes occurring.
How would you aim at reducing these incidents of crime? Include information and specific recommendations.
How does Concentric Zone Theory apply to your selected city?
Explain the purpose for the educational organization.
In Week 6, you selected a scenario and formulated goals that could be used as part of a strategic plan. In this assignment, as an educational leader, you are to create a strategic plan that provides stakeholders with information about what you want the school or organization to achieve and the process by which it plans to get there. The plan will inform stakeholders of:
· The name and purpose of the selected school or organization.
· The strategic plan goals.
· The key initiatives.
· The actions to achieve the selected goals.
· The necessary resources for implementation.
· How the plan can improve student achievement, retain great teachers or faculty, and enhance leadership
Create a 5–7-page strategic plan in which you:
1. Explain the purpose for the educational organization.
2. Evaluate the key initiatives of the strategic plan.
3. Develop three actions to be taken during the implementation phase, including any necessary resources, and how they will achieve the plan’s goals.
4. Evaluate the effectiveness of the strategic plan, including how it will improve student achievement, retain teachers or faculty, and enhance leadership.
5. Use six sources to support your writing. Choose sources that are credible, relevant, and appropriate. Cite each source listed on your source page at least one time within your assignment. For help with research, writing, and citation, access the library or review library guides , the Education Database , or the Master of Education library guide .
Educationdata.org reports the following in-depth statistics across different categories and demographics on the number of college graduates:
(Improving the Graduation Rate For Minority – My Scenario)
(1) Only 1-in-4 high school graduates who enrolled as college freshmen this year will graduate after four years.
(2) A higher percentage of college students who are pursuing bachelor’s degrees (four-year courses) will graduate (60%) than the general population of college students (41%).
(3) Only 18% of bachelor’s degree graduates finished their studies within four years.
(4) Only 31.6% of Associate degree (two-year courses) students graduate.
(5) Graduation rates at public colleges have increased by 15% from 2010.
describe the different laws that pertain to the insanity defense.
My state is Louisiana. The states we are comparing Is Missouri, Louisiana, and Chicago.
My bullet point I have is bullet #2:: describe the different laws that pertain to the insanity defense.. with speaker notes.
Add it on the correct slide
Are there ways that those harmed (or others) are benefited in a way that justifies the harm? Does the good outweigh the harm?
Final Project Outline
Course: Business Ethics Program: Bachelor of International Management: Core Course
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Project Title: The Mastery of the Ethical, Legal and Financial Dimensions.
Project Aim and Purpose: The aim of this project is to illuminate the financial, legal and ethical dimensions of the problem, and to recommend a solution (or analyze how a corporation handled a situation) that makes sense financially, legally and ethically.
Project Learning Outcomes:
1. Examine the current factors which are driving increased awareness of business ethics in today’s business environment.
2. Provide some clarity to the lexicon of business ethics and related terminology.
3. Engage with current issues in the business environment and society at large, as presented in the media.
4. Investigate ethics in a variety of functional areas of business including information technology, human resource management, marketing, accounting, entrepreneurship and international business.
5. Present ethical principles, which are of relevance in these key functional areas.
6. Review the theoretical foundations of ethics.
7. Provide guidelines to assist with ethical decision-making and discuss the strategies that can be used to strengthen the ethical climates of organizations. The students in groups will research and present a case in class as well as a written report.
Project Structure: Full Presentation
Students select an appropriate case. Each student prepares a presentation in which students explain the legal, financial and ethical dimensions of the problem. You then recommend a solution that must pass the master on all three counts. Presentations should be around 20 slides.
The idea of the exercise is to help students see that it is possible to do business profitably while at the same time acting ethically. The format that works best is for a team to think of itself as either an internal or outside consulting group that has been asked by senior management or the Board to analyze the problem and propose a solution.
I recommend that you think about your presentation in either of the following two ways:
A) You describe a problem that some business is facing, and you then propose a solution. Your description of the problem should include its business, legal and ethical dimensions. BE SURE TO EXPLAIN HOW THIS PROBLEM HAS AN ETHICAL DIMENSION. (See the section on “handling the ethical issues” below.) Explain how your solution: is legal, makes sense financially, and is ethically defensible. BE SURE TO EXPLAIN WHY YOUR SOLUTION IS ETHICALLY ACCEPTABLE.
B) You describe a problem that some business has faced and the solution that it chose. Your description should include its legal, business and ethical dimensions. BE SURE TO EXPLAIN HOW THIS PROBLEM HAS AN ETHICAL DIMENSION. You will then evaluate the company’s solution from business and ethical perspectives. BE SURE TO EXPLAIN WHY THE COMPANY’S SOLUTION IS ETHICALLY ACCEPTABLE OR UNACCEPTABLE. If you think it is unacceptable, propose an alternative solution and explain why yours is better.
Be certain that you are ultimately taking a position. That is, do not simply report on different ways that the issue can be regarded. If your team cannot agree about what position it should take, explain the majority and minority positions and set out the areas of differences.
Your overall goals are: to illuminate the financial, legal and ethical dimensions of the problem, and to recommend a solution (or analyze how a corporation handled a situation) that makes sense financially, legally and ethically. Here are some suggestions for covering these three areas.
HANDLING THE FINANCIAL ISSUES. Identify the financial impact of the problem and the financial implications of the solution. This isn’t so much an exercise in detailed financial
analysis (although feel free to do so, if you like that sort of thing) as much as an explanation of: how (and to what extent) the problem raises or lowers the company’s costs or profits; how expensive your solution is; whether the company is in a position to afford your solution; and the like.
HANDLING THE LEGAL ISSUES. Identify laws, regulations or court cases that effectively restrict what the company may do. Obviously, significant fines or settlements are important financial issues.
HANDLING THE ETHICAL ISSUES. One-third of your score will depend on how well you handle the ethical dimensions of your case. You will be expected to operate within a framework that discusses ethics in terms of a) the tangible good and/or harm experienced by those affected (humans and, if appropriate, nonhumans) and b) the “rights” or fundamental moral principles involved. (In other words, you are expected to utilize a secular, philosophical framework.). This can be done by answering the following series of questions:
– Does the problem/solution harm anyone?
– Are there ways that those harmed (or others) are benefited in a way that justifies the harm? Does the good outweigh the harm?
– In thinking about these benefits and harms, are you considering that some goods are qualitatively better than others and that some harms are qualitatively worse than others?
– Completely apart from the tangible impact of the problem/solution on those affected, is everyone involved being treated appropriately? That is, are there specific “rights” or “duties” that are a part of this case that must be respected? Is there a conflict of rights, duties or obligations? How should the conflict be handled?
An even simpler way of approaching this is to use just two ideas, which, it is fair to say, are good candidates for universal moral principles:
– Do no harm. (Do nothing that increases the risk of harm. If you’re responsible for harm, repair the damage).
– Treat others appropriately. (Actions should respect principles of fairness, justice, equality, truthfulness, dignity, etc. Act responsibly. Keep agreements.)
Identify and discuss the basic ideals and principles of American democracy and how they are applied in our republican form of government.
Instructions:
You must write an essay (1000 words minimum) in which you address the following two questions or topics:
The fundamental values that inform how are democratic government is legitimated and organized are enshrined on the Declaration of Independence and in the Constitution of the United States.
1. Identify and discuss the basic ideals and principles of American democracy and how they are applied in our republican form of government.
Those ideals and principles are discussed in the first and second chapters of your textbook. You can also visit the following websites to read the original document in which these fundamental values were first stated and how they were later incorporated in the American Constitution:
· The Declaration of Independence: http://www.ushistory.org/declaration/document/
· The Constitution of the United States: https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/constitution-transcript
2. Identify the most important Supreme Court cases and executive actions and their impact on law and on our society.
The history of the United States has been marked by the progressive expansion of voting rights and the protection of its citizens through legislation and Supreme Court decisions. At the same time, executive orders, particularly in periods of crisis led to the violation of individual rights. Throughout this module these issues are covered. In chapters 3 and 4 you will find the information you need to answer this question. You are also encouraged to visit the following websites for further details.
· Supreme Court Landmarks – http://www.uscourts.gov/about-federal-courts/educational-resources/supreme-court-landmarks
· 15 Supreme Court Cases that Changed America – https://www.cnn.com/2012/10/10/justice/landmark-scotus-cases/index.html
· Executive Orders – The American Presidency Project
· NAACP was instrumental in the landmark case of Brown v Board of Education. Visit the web site to find information on the case that led to desegregation. http://www.naacp.org
