You will prepare a written research design proposal within the field of criminal justice but can be related to the topic of your choice. (In other words, it can be related to sports or politics or fashion or whatever floats your boat, but needs to have a criminal justice element)

There is not a single “right” way to approach this question. Your job will be to justifyyour decisions. Your paper should address (but need not be limited to) the following:

• Research Topic
• Research Problem
• Research Question
• Purpose of the Study
• Methodology
• Research Theory
• Research Design
• Ethical Considerations
• Validity/Reliability Concerns
• Sampling method
• Data Collection method

Instructions on the worksheet attached.

Review the Case Study Introduction for Uber. Then, research Uber’s current business, its entrepreneurial history, and the industry it operates in. As you prepare your analysis of Uber’s present situation and future strategic opportunities, reflect on these basic considerations: the benefits and challenges of the sharing economy compared to the industry’s existing economic system; how value chains and competitive competencies are different for a sharing economy; what factors within the pillars of the strategy tripod inform Uber management’s globalization strategic policy on entry timing, location selection, and entry modes; and if (and how) Uber should adapt its business model toward international markets versus a domestic focus in the future.

This introductory essay (final reflection essay)(aim to write 6-8 pages)

1) makes arguments about your progress in WR39B, especially in the RA essay and RIP project; and

2) analyzes all of the writing you’ve selected for the portfolio as evidence for your arguments. The essay should include the following:

• Specific arguments about the advancement of particular writing skills through class participation and engagement, reading and writing homework, paper drafts and the revision process in all its stages, including peer review.

• Supportive analysis of specific evidence taken from your own writing and the feedback you have received. Evidence will include quotations, screenshots and other images of your writing, and/or hyperlinks.

• Your reasons for making the choices you made, and what you may have done differently; what you think you accomplished and what you’re struggling with.

• Your responses to the class texts and how these sources informed your own work and ideas.

• Your plans for writing after WR39B–what you want to work on and how you want to develop your skills in WR39C and/or your other classes.

Beware: you should follow your instincts as well as your informed belief, not hubris or pathos. Consider what you did, what you could have done, what you believe you wanted to learn, etc.

Additional notes on writing the Portfolio Introduction essay:

• Your arguments should relate the development of your writing skills to the larger context of academic writing. Put another way, what do you understand about academic discourse (writing) and its conventions that you didn’t know before taking WR39B? As a college-level writer, how have you adopted (or adapted to) the conventions of academic discourse throughout your writing process in WR39B?

• You may choose to write about anything related to your learning in WR39B, so long as you make arguable claims about your progress in class so far, logically supported by specific evidence from your work.

• Your selection of process work functions as supporting evidence for your claims in the essay–quote or integrate your writing directly using screenshots or photos so that you can analyze it properly.

• Cultivate your personal voice. Feel free to write in the first person; use “we” when referring to your group’s activities. However, a personal tone should not lead to informality or vague ideas; remember to maintain conventions of good writing as you describe your personal experiences and individual learning.

• The Portfolio Introduction is a formal essay and as such, you should organize your essay carefully: begin with an introductory paragraph and end with a concluding paragraph; in between, craft (more than three!) body paragraphs that each develop a single main idea. Your introductory essay should go through more than one draft; revise carefully and make sure to proofread for any lingering errors or typos.

• As much as possible, explain the relationships between the different assignments you completed this quarter. For example, how did particular CR or RIP exercises help you to develop and/or revise your essays? Your introductory essay should not be a mere laundry list of things you did over ten weeks—I already know what you were assigned to do. What I want to know from this document is how you made these tasks meaningful for yourself as a developing writer.

• Don’t be afraid to discuss the negative aspects of your learning process as well as the positive. If you’ve experienced frustration, confusion, or failure, reflect on what caused the trouble and explain how you learned from it. And after only five weeks in this class, you probably still have some things to continue working on—be honest about what skills you need to keep practicing.

• Be as specific as possible! Quote your own work directly and consider including multi-modal elements—hyperlinks, screenshots, camera pics, and/or paper excerpts to illustrate your writing process. Before-and-after images work particularly well.

Below are some guiding questions you might use to jumpstart your self-assessment. I recommend you use these questions for focused freewriting before writing your first draft, so that you can plan what you want to say; the more questions you answer, the better.

Keep in mind that simply answering these questions in paragraph form will not make a good essay–you do need a thesis of some kind and your essay as a whole should be coherent and cohesive.

Hint:

On your rhetorical awareness:

• How do you understand the significance of rhetorical situation on a writer’s message?
• How do you meet the expectations of different, specific audiences (your instructor, your peers, yourself, the larger academic community)?
• How do you craft different personas to achieve different rhetorical goals?
• How does context dictate your other rhetorical choices?
• How do different rhetorical strategies influence one another in your writing?

On your understanding of genre conventions, and especially travel writing conventions:

• How has your understanding of travel writing evolved since the beginning of the class?
• How do you understand the rhetorical significance of travel writing conventions?
• How have you used your understanding of the travel writing genre to understand other genres and their conventions?
• How does your understanding of genre conventions shape your writing process and your rhetorical choices?
• How have you applied your newly-gained knowledge of travel writing to your life and experience outside WR39B?

On your writing process:

• How do you understand the importance of writing as a process?
• How has your drafting process evolved since the beginning of this class?
• Have you changed the way you take notes on your reading, in order to better prepare for later writing? How?
• What pre-writing methods do you prefer, and why?
• What types of drafting techniques and writing habits work well for you, and why?

On your revision process:

• How do you understand the importance of revision?
• How has your revision process evolved since the beginning of this class?
• How have you grown more attentive to broad conceptual revisions dealing with argument and analysis–that is, refining your ideas?
• How have you grown more attentive to organizational issues, like paragraphs and transitions?
• How do you respond to feedback, both from me and your peers?
• What kind of advice do you tend to give to other writers during peer review?
• How does giving feedback shape your own revision process?

On your use of outside sources:

• How do you understand the usefulness of popular and scholarly sources?
• How do you select appropriate sources to respond to in your writing? Describe your process.
• How do other people’s ideas shape your own ideas and writing process?

On your unique development as an academic writer:

• Have you experienced moments when the light bulb suddenly illuminated? Can you explain why and how this happened?
• Have you experienced moments of productive frustration or failure? Can you explain why this happened and how you learned from it?
• What would you revise further in the RA and RIP, if you had the opportunity?
• Why aren’t you satisfied with that element of the project and what specific changes would you make?
• How do you see your writing, at this point in WR39B?
• How do you view your position as an academic writer and/or as a writer in other contexts?
• How would you describe your authorial voice and style?
• What do you want to communicate as an individual and/or as a member of our UCI community?
• What plans do you for developing your writing skills in WR39C and/or your other classes?

Your essay should include the following:

An introduction in which you explain the ideas of voluntourism and neo-colonialism as well as outlining your main supporting points.

A discussion of at least three ways that voluntourism might be considered a form of neo- colonialism. In your discussion, you should refer to specific examples from the video and readings. (Note: the best answers will also draw from concepts from lecture and the textbook such as “white man’s burden,” ethnocentrism, core-periphery relations, transnational corporations, globalization, Orientalism, etc.)

A discussion of ways to improve voluntourism in order to avoid its neo-colonial characteristics

A brief conclusion in which you summarize your key points. (Note: you can also use your

conclusion to raise additional unanswered questions or concerns.)

Unit 10 Individual Assignment

Individual Assignment (suggested level of effort: 3 hours)

Budget Estimating (100 points)

This assignment consists of 2 parts: questions about budget estimation and developing a budget.

Part 1 Questions (10 points)

Provide responses to the following questions

1. You are providing a review of contractor bids for a component of your upcoming project. What can be done to determine whether or not a vendor’s bid is reasonable?

2. Describe the conditions for which parametric, analogous and bottom up estimation techniques work best, and provide 2 examples in support of each method.

3. Why is a cost management plan important? How does the plan benefit the project manager?

Part 2 Budget Estimating (30 points)

Using the same scenario from the previous unit on scheduling, create a time-phased budget for the following project. Prepare a figure like Exhibit 10.9, CPT 4e, that illustrates the daily and cumulative costs for the resource-leveled project.

Assume the following hourly rates:

Alcides $45 / hr.

Joan $50 / hr.

Activity ID	Activity	Immediate Predecessor	Duration in days	Resource	Work Hours per Day
A	Evaluate freezers		2	Alcides	6
B	Chart temperatures		6	Joan	4
C	Review service record		2	Alcides
D	Consult with HVAC engineer	A, B, C	3	Alcides
E	Develop construction plan	D	10	Joan
F	Complete IC assignment	E	2	Alcides
G	Complete ROI analysis	E	5	Joan
H	Conduct regulatory review	E	4	Joan
I	Obtain construction approval	F, G, H	2	Alcides

Part 3 Budget Estimating (50 points)

You are the project manager for a process improvement project for Company XYZ. Prepare a figure like Exhibit 10.9 that illustrates the weekly and cumulative costs for the resource-leveled project.

Hint: To accomplish this exercise, you’ll need to create a project schedule in MS Excel (or by hand), create resource assignments, assign costs to each resource, and assign the resources to each task. Some resource leveling will be required.

In this project, you have 3 employees: Ann, Becky and Clive. Each person is limited to the amount of time allocated to your project. Ann and Becky are available 30 hours/week; Clive is available 20 hours/week. There hourly rates are: Ann: $60/hour; Becky: $35/hour; and Clive: $50/hour.

WBS	Activity	Immediate Predecessor	Estimated Duration in weeks	Resource
1	Process Improvement Project
1.1	Operational definition
1.1.1	Research literature		3	Becky
1.1.2	Identify and define terms	1.1.1	1	Ann
1.1.3	Obtain approval of definition	1.1.2	2	Clive
1.2	Target Selection
1.2.1	Solicit partners for pilot		2	Ann
1.2.2	Hold brainstorming meeting	1.2.1	2	Becky
1.2.3	Identify characteristics of targets	1.2.2, 1.3.1	1	Ann
1.2.4	Obtain approval of partners	1.2.3, 1.1.2, 1.3.4	1	Clive
1.3	Question set
1.3.1	Identify process group members		2	Clive
1.3.2	Develop question set	1.2.3	4	Ann
1.3.3	Prototype and validate question set	1.3.2	3	Becky
1.3.4	Add partners	1.3.1, 1.2.1	3	Becky
1.4	Pilot process
1.4.1	Schedule with target audience	1.2.4	2	Becky
1.4.2	Conduct beta test	1.3.4, 1.2.4	2	Clive
1.4.3	Process feedback from target audience	1.4.2	2	Ann
1.4.4	Conduct pilot	1.4.3	2	Clive
1.4.5	Analyze results	1.4.4	2	Clive

Mechanics (10 points)

Part 1 responses should be presented in a question-response format. Use Arial font with 11 point. There is no word limit.

Your Instructor will use Turn-it-in to ensure your paper is authentic work. To avoid plagiarism, see the course home page for more information and use the Purdue Online Writing Lab to learn how to paraphrase, summarize and cite the references you use in all academic writing assignments.

Parts 2 and 3 Use MS Excel (MS Project is not acceptable) to create the budget estimate and present it similar to Exhibit 10.9. Show intermediate steps (schedule, resource schedule assignments, resource-leveled schedule and any other elements needed to create the time-phased budget estimate.

It is expected that each part of this assignment have excellent mechanics (presentation, grammar and spelling) and exhibit the quality of work capable of a group of graduate students and working professionals. All sections of the document submitted must be readable at 100% magnification.

Your Instructor will use Turn-it-in to ensure your paper is authentic work. To avoid plagiarism, see the course home page for more information and use the Purdue Online Writing Lab to learn how to paraphrase, summarize and cite the references you use in all academic writing assignments.

Submit your assignment to the drop box in Moodle

Recommendations Report and Plan of Action

All of your assignments in this course have led to this one—a recommendations report that includes a plan of action for each recommendation, directed to the agency of your choice (see the suggestions below). Now it is time to synthesize your prior work and much of the information you have read about and researched in this course into your final assignment.

Complete these three parts for your assignment.

Part 1: Description of Audience

It is always important to understand the audience for your recommendation report; it helps ensure you are writing a report that is appropriate for it. For this recommendation report, you must choose an audience. Some ideas of who your audience could be include the Long Term Care Professional Leadership Council, the National Council on Aging, or the board of a long-term care agency (such as an assisted living facility, an agency that provides home-based services, or a hospice). Describe the audience for your report and plan of action. Explain why this is an appropriate audience for your report.

Part 2: Recommendations Report and Plan of Action

Complete the following:

• Select a major problem area in the long-term continuum of care. This can be the same problem area you used in your Unit 7 assignment or a different one. Identify any ethical considerations related to this problem area.
• Identify 10 (total) specific recommendations based on best practices you have identified in your research, including 2 of your own original ideas, directed toward the problem area you identified. Do not be afraid to think outside the box when developing your recommendations. Make sure all the recommendations except for the 2 original ones you developed are grounded in research.
• For each of the 10 recommendations, develop a plan of action for improving the problem area. Your plan of action under each recommendation should include:
  • A clear statement of long-term continuum of care goal(s) to be achieved.
  • Organization(s) to be involved, including potential public/private partnership(s).
  • Information system components, if any, required to support the enactment of the plan.
  • A description of how the action plan results will be evaluated.

Part 3: Application of Leadership Style

Make a case for how the preferred leadership style you chose in Unit 7 would be the best leadership style to promote the implementation of your recommendations and plan of action. Include how your preferred leadership style would address ethical considerations related to the major problem area you identified in Part 2.

Assessment 1

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• Impact Report to Senior Leadership

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  • Attempt 2NotAvailable
  • Attempt 3NotAvailable
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  Overview

  Write a 4–6 page impact report to senior leadership that identifies a nursing-related challenge, analyzes how it affects the organization from a nursing perspective, and details the new position.Each organization has a unique structure that impacts the behavior of the organization. In health care organizations, this impact is on the ability of the organization to deliver quality patient care. Nursing is an essential component of any health care organization, and nursing leaders must understand the role of nursing and nursing leadership within the total organization. Understanding basic organizational structure, mission, vision, philosophy, and values will better prepare nurse leaders to improve quality and patient outcomes.SHOW MORE

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  Context

  Organizational Structure, Systems Theory, and Leadership

  Embedded within the AONE (2015) competencies for nursing leaders are various components of systems thinking and systems leadership. Nursing leaders need to perform a historical review of organizational theories because it helps them understand the effect of structures and theories that are relevant to health care organizational systems. This understanding leads to knowledge on how these systems affect the role and scope of nursing practice.SHOW MORE

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  Questions to Consider

  To deepen your understanding, you are encouraged to consider the questions below and discuss them with a fellow learner, a work associate, an interested friend, or a member of the heath care community.

  • What is the relationship between an organization’s structure, mission, vision, philosophy, values, and policies and procedures?
  • What strategies does your health care organization (or one that you are familiar with) use when making changes within the organization?
  • How do you see nurse leaders participating in the process of organizational change?
  • How are changes made in organizational structure, and when are they typically made?
  • How do transformational and transparent nursing leadership fit in the organization’s power structure?
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  Resources

  Required Resources

  The following resources are required to complete the assessment.

  Capella Resources

  Click the link provided to view the following resource:

  • SWOT Analysis Template.
  • APA Paper Template.
  • APA Paper Tutorial.

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• Assessment Instructions

  Preparation

  Use the Suggested Resources for this assessment to study systems theory, SWOT analysis, and shared governance teams, as background for an Impact Report to Senior Leadership. The report includes a SWOT analysis. The SWOT Analysis Template is linked in Required Resources.

  • Study a facility in your area and examine its Web site and any available public documents to aid you in completing this assessment. You may wish to examine an organization where you work, where you have worked in the past, or where you did your clinical work.
  • Do not name the organization in your report; instead, identify the type of facility and location. Example: A rehabilitation center in a midsize Midwestern city.

  Use the following scenario as the basis for your report:

  Scenario

  The unit-based Shared Governance Council of the organization where you work has identified a major nursing-related challenge (patient/staff safety, confidentiality, management/staff conflict, poor patient satisfaction survey scores, or nursing staff shortages) within your health care organization.In an unusual move, your system administrator is considering creating a new nurse leadership position that would have the responsibility and authority to address this specific issue. As a member of the shared governance council’s subcommittee, you have been asked to write the committee’s final report.

  Deliverable: Impact Report to Senior Leadership

  Write a 4–6 page impact report to senior leadership that identifies the challenge, analyzes how it affects the organization from a nursing perspective, and details the new position.

  • Use systems thinking and leadership theory as tools to approach this problem.

  Construct the report with the following headings:

  The Nursing Challenge:

  • Identify the nursing challenge and its impact from a nursing perspective. Choose from:
    • Patient/staff safety, confidentiality, management/staff conflict, poor patient-satisfaction survey scores, or nursing staff shortages.

  The System/Organization:

  • Explain how the nursing challenge creates a gap or conflict between the organization’s statements and practice.
    • Identify the organization type—that is, specialty hospital, teaching hospital, major health care system, et cetera, and summarize the organizational structure, its mission, vision, and philosophy statements.
    • Use systems theory and systems thinking to explain the gap or conflict.

  SWOT Analysis:

  Use the SWOT Analysis Template linked in Required Resources and include the SWOT analysis table in your paper.

  • Identify organizational factors that impact the situation using a SWOT analysis.
    • For example, a budget cut may cause short staffing, which relates directly to the problem.
  • What factors within the system may facilitate a solution for this problem?

  The Position:

  • Assess how the new nurse leader position will have power and influence and impact patient outcomes.
  • How will this position affect change within the organization?
  • Identify key leadership skills, knowledge, or abilities required for the position.

  Additional Requirements

  • Written communication: Written communication should be free of errors that detract from the overall message.
  • APA formatting: Resources and in-text citations should be formatted according to current APA style and formatting.
  • Length: The report should be 4–6 pages in content length. Include a separate title page and a separate reference page.
  • Font and font size: Times New Roman, 12 point, double-spaced.
  • Number of resources: Use a minimum of three peer-reviewed resources.

Choose a book that is appropriate for a read-aloud K- 3rd grade.

Videotape yourself reading a children’s literature book to a young child.

Use different strategies for reading aloud – for example, change your tone when reading, use expressions and gestures, use objects, questioning, etc. Then view your video.

Complete a 250-500 word reflection that includes, but is not limited to, the following:

1. Book title, author, and genre.
2. Summary of the book.
3. Different read-aloud strategies you used.
4. Reactions of the young child and the age of the child.
5. Modifications for read-alouds with a class of young children.
6. Strengths and opportunities for growth. Provide specific examples

Week 1 Discussion 1

Foundation of Leadership

Law enforcement leaders are continually faced with challenges
protecting and serving the citizens of their communities. It is
paramount that leaders strive to gain and maintain public trust in law
enforcement agencies. Leaders must develop strong foundations by
instilling ethics and integrity throughout their agencies to enhance
public support for effective crime control and community policing.

For this Discussion, consider the elements of integrity and ethics in
police leadership and the role they play in the development of a law
enforcement agency.

Post by Day 3 a description of one element
representative of integrity and ethics in police leadership. Explain the
roles of integrity and ethics in the development of a law enforcement
agency. Explain how integrity and ethics might be affected by the
political climate or certain situations in law enforcement agencies.
Finally, explain one way a leader might instill integrity and ethics as
core values of a law enforcement agency.

Large credit rating agencies (RAs), such as S&P, have come under increasing criticism in recent years for a number of reasons. First, the RAs maintain close relationships with the management of the companies they rate. These connections are characterized by frequent meetings, during which the RAs provide advice on actions companies should take to maintain current ratings. This practice fosters a familial atmosphere that interferes with independent, unbiased rating judgments. Furthermore, because the RAs are paid by the companies they rate, rather than the investors they are meant to protect, a clear conflict of interest exists.

Second, because the rating business is reputation based (why pay attention to a rating that is not recognized by others?), barriers to market entry are high and RAs are oligopolists (an oligopoly is a market dominated by just a few sellers). Thus, the RAs are somewhat immune to forces that apply to competitive markets and, to an extent, can set their rules.

Finally, in many instances, the debt markets (through lower bond prices) have recognized a company’s deteriorating the credit quality many months before a rating downgrade occurred. This fact has led many observers to suggest that, rather than rely on ratings, investors and regulators should use credit spreads to make judgments about credit risk. (Credit spreads reflect the difference in yields between interest rates on “safe” debt, such as Treasury securities, and rates on risky debt such as B-rated bonds.)

What do you think? To what extent are credit ratings valid? Do the criticisms of RAs have merit? Can the current credit rating system be improved? If so, how?