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  • Title: The Significance of County Government in Texas: Organizational Structure and Distribution of Authority

    Analyze the importance of county government in Texas. What are the main governmental tasks of counties? How are counties organized, and how is authority distributed?

  • “Intervention Proposal: Implementing a Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Program for Patients with Chronic Pain” Intervention Proposal: Implementing a Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Program for Patients with Chronic Pain Introduction: Chronic pain is a complex and debilitating condition

    Develop an intervention (your capstone project), as a solution to the patient, family, or population problem you’ve defined. Submit the proposed intervention to the faculty for review and approval. This solution needs to be implemented (shared) with your patient, family, or group. You are not to share your intervention with your patient, family, or group or move on to Assessment 5 before your faculty reviews/approves the solution you submit in Assessment 4. In a separate written deliverable, write a 5–7 page analysis of your intervention.

  • “Analyzing the Effectiveness of an Argument: A Case Study”

    Rough Draft Due: June 23, 2024 (On Canvas Through TurnItIn)
    Final Draft Due: June 30, 2024 (On Canvas Through TurnItIn)
    Purpose:
    In this essay, students will select an essay and identify its purpose and audience; then, analyze how effectively its tone, logos, ethos, and pathos appeal to that audience.
    Skills:
    In life, many ideas are presented with varying degrees of evidence. While it would be nice to have the time to evaluate everything, people should at least be able to analyze the arguments that are most important to their lives. This essay is about examining an argument and determining what is effective and not effective about it for its intended audience. Use these skills to analyze important arguments presented to you in your life.
    Knowledge:
    The ability to determine the effectiveness of an argument and its evidence.
    Task:
    We are reading several argumentative essays with various appeals that support their argument. In this essay, examine how ONE of the following essays makes its argument:
    “Violent Media is Good for Kids” https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2000/06/violent-media-good-kids-0/Links to an external site.
    “Why Videogames Should Be Played With Friends, Not Online With Strangers” https://www.wired.com/2014/06/gaming-on-the-couch/Links to an external site.
    “Opinion: When Nurses Are at Risk, Our Patients Are Too”
    https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/12/opinions/nurses-strike-nyc-ghazalLinks to an external site.
    Each of these texts the class has read discusses a specific problem facing American society and the way it functions. Using ONE of these essays, examine:
    What are the writer’s (writers’) thesis and claims? (introduction)What are they arguing?
    What is the writer trying to solve?
    According to your analysis, is the argument effective? (thesis)
    What is the audience? How do you know?
    Look up the author and publication. Does this data reveal any biases? Do the author’s biases make their argument less effective?
    Does the author have the appropriate credibility to make the argument (ethos)? How is the author credible or not?
    Does the author cite sources that have the appropriate credibility to make the argument (ethos)? How is the source credible or not?
    Do the date, place, or context of publication reveal anything about the story?
    What kinds of logical arguments (logos) does the author use?Do the solutions address the problems?
    What emotional appeals does the author use? (pathos)
    Are the examples that the author puts forward relevant to their argument? Why or why not?
    Evaluate these points, and using your analysis, form a perspective that evaluates the argument, context, and major points.
    Be clear and concise. (Avoid wordiness and use thesis, topic sentences, transitions, etc.)
    Be sure to cite the essay you use and any other cites you reference, though you should not do research for this essay. Focus on how the article is effective or not for the audience.
    Remember, do not bring in your own arguments into this essay.
    This essay will be 1,200 words long and must be in correct MLA format.
    Remember to include appropriate essay structure, including a thesis statement, topic sentences, introduced and explained quotes/paraphrases, and a restated thesis.
    The Rough Draft is due on Sunday, June 23rd, through Canvas for my comments. It only needs to be 600 words long, though it can be full length.
    The full-length Final Draft should be revised by Sunday, June 30th, through Canvas for the final grade. This should be 1,200 words.

  • Title: Exploring the Knowledge Gap in Social Work Practice: A Literature Review on Mental Health in Marginalized Communities

    Assignment Instructions: Write a four- to five-page literature review on a topic of interest in
    social work practice. In your literature review include:
    1. A very brief background (context) for the issue you’ve chosen. This should contain
    information about the issue, statistics about any relevant populations or the topic/issue,
    information about the size and scope of the issue, or other fact-based or evidence-based
    analysis that provides a supporting rationale for the literature review.
    2. Provide a discussion about what is known about the issue, citing at least 10 peer-reviewed
    research articles in this section of the paper. You may also use gray literature reports,
    briefs, etc. as additional sources. In this section, you should synthesize the literature,
    identifying key themes and issues.
    3. Indicate what is missing from the knowledge base—that is, what needs to be known,
    what do we need more evidence on and why. This section should link directly back to the
    literature review (question 2) and may include additional citations and sources as needed.
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    4. Present an analysis/critique of the literature within the framework of the core values of
    the Code of Ethics (select 2 of the core values) to apply and analyze —to what degree
    does the literature reflect those values? Specifically, based on your synthesis of the
    literature, what is important for social work researchers to reflect on as they engage in
    further research in this area?
    5. End the literature review by articulating a potential research question based on this
    knowledge need that would help to fill the knowledge gap. This section should
    summarize and draw conclusions and provide a research question that can be used for
    your Research Study Design assignment.

  • Embracing Change: My Personal Response and Reflections on Unnecessary Change in Life Introduction: Change is an inevitable part of life, and how we respond to it can greatly impact our personal growth and development. In this discussion, I will

    Choose one of the following questions to answer for this week’s discussion board. Make sure to repost the question you selected at the top of your posting.
    How do you typically respond to change? Do you embrace it? Seek it out? Accept it reluctantly? Avoid it at all cost? Is this behavior like that of your friends and that of your family? Has your behavior always fit this pattern, or has the pattern changed throughout your life? If so, what life events have altered how you view and respond to change?
    Try to remember a situation in your own life that involved unnecessary change. Why do you think that the change was unnecessary? What types of turmoil did it cause? Were there things a change agent could have done that would have increased unfreezing in this situation?
    A brief introductory paragraph introduces the topic of the discussion. One or more succinct paragraphs are needed to answer each of the discussion board questions. Use current literature (5 years old or less) to support your views. Be sparing in your use of quotes. Learn to paraphrase the information you are sharing from a source. A paragraph at the end gives a brief summary of the discussion. The initial posting for each topic should be a minimum of 500 words in length (not including the references

  • Title: Understanding Lymphoma: Pathophysiology, Signs and Symptoms, Diagnosis, and Treatment Introduction Lymphoma is a type of cancer that affects the lymphatic system, which is responsible for fighting infections and diseases in the body.

    Assignment 1
    Write a 2-3-page paper about  a type of lymphoma (Hodgkin’s or
    non-Hodgkin’s) OR a type of leukemia (ALL, AML, CLL, or CML) . Be
    sure to include the Pathophysiology, signs and symptoms, diagnosis, and
    treatment.
    Please use at least two references from the web
    and/or nursing journals and one from one of your nursing textbooks. The
    references should be no older than five (5) years old. This paper should contain
    a cover page and be written in essay
    form, with 12 Times New Roman font, double spaced, and one-inch margins.

  • “Assessing Financial Performance: A Comparative Analysis of Target and Competitor Companies in the U.S. Public Market”

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    FINA Project Instructions
    The objective of this project is to link the principles, practices and policies of financial management with the actual
    performances of companies by using their financial statements and other published information about their
    activities. More specifically, each student must select one “target” non-financial U.S. public corporation that will be
    the primary focus of your report together with one additional U.S. public company in the same industry, which can
    be used as a “competitor” for comparison. Find your selected “target” and “competitor” firms’ income statements
    and balance sheet statements for their last two years (e.g. 2022 and 2023). You can find the financial statements on
    Yahoo Finance. The following items are suggested outline for your report.
    Introduction with General Information about the “target” Company (Note, the below bullet points must only be
    completed for the target company)
     the complete name of the selected company


    the company’s industry
    a brief description of the company’s business, its significant products, areas of operation, and events in
    company history.
    Assessment of the Corporation’s Financial Performance:
    1. Present the balance sheet for the last two years (simplify and try to fit into one page) for your “target” and
    “competitor” companies.
    2. Present the income statement for the last two years (simplify and try to fit into one page) for your “target” and
    “competitor” companies.
    3. Compute the following ratios for the most recent and previous year for your firm as well as the competitor
    firm (try to create a table that summarizes all the ratios for the “target” and “competitor” companies).
    Profitability Ratios
    Gross Margin
    Operating margin
    Net profit margin
    Valuation Ratios
    Price-to-Earnings ratio
    Market-to-Book ratio
    4. Analyze the “target” and “competitor” financial conditions based on the financial ratios calculated above. You
    will need to evaluate your “target” firm’s financial condition by comparing each of the financial ratio you
    calculate to its major competitor. In order to discuss your observations meaningfully, don’t forget to
    comment on any trends in the “target” and “competitor” firms’ performance. Please use the written
    disclosures in the report to discuss more about why changes occurred on a year-to-year basis for “target” and
    “competitor” firms. Identify any strengths or weaknesses you find in the “target” and “competitor” firms.
    The due date for the written report is June 24, 2024. Please include the following in the
    submission of the project:
     Cover and contents pages.
     Do not exceed a total of 10 pages.
     Make sure you answer all the questions and prepare your report based on the instruction.
     Organization and completeness will count.
     Be sure that the project is professional in appearance. A reader friendly report is always a good idea!
     Note: I am not looking for a “perfect” report/assignment. The project will be graded based on effort.  

  • “Exploring the World of Early Childhood Education: A Career Exploration Project”

    The assignment is a Career Exploration Project.  My Career of choice is early childhood education.   I will include the instructions for the assignment along with an interview that I had to do for the paper.  

  • Peer Response for Incorporating Direct Quotes in a Research Paper Response: Title: Incorporating Direct Quotes in a Research Paper: Peer Response and Bonus Feedback In the body paragraph of their research paper draft, the author states, “According to a

    Post one body paragraph from your research paper draft that uses at least one direct quote. Use a different color font, bolding, or underlining for the sentence with the quote. Then respond to the following: Is the direct quote incorporated correctly? Explain. Does the direct quote work grammatically in the larger sentence it’s a part of? Explain. Did you find the Grammar Lab content help you avoid and/or revise dropped quotes? Explain. Have you cited the direct quote correctly? If so, explain. If not, how might you correct it? Please respond to the following questions: Has your peer incorporated the direct quote into the paper correctly? If so, explain why. If not, explain why and suggest how it might be revised. Is the direct quote cited correctly per APA in-text guidelines? If it’s not correct, what suggestions can you offer? If you have any go-to APA web sites that you use, feel free to share those web links. PEER RESPONSE PLUS BONUS OF 30

  • The Use of CBT in Groups, Family, and Individual Settings: Challenges and Considerations for PMHNPs

     2 page – Post an explanation of how the use of CBT in groups compares to its use in family or individual settings. Explain at least two challenges PMHNPs might encounter when using CBT in one of these settings. Support your response with specific examples from this week’s media and at least three peer-reviewed, evidence-based sources. Explain why each of your supporting sources is considered scholarly and attach the PDFs of your sources.
    Upload a copy of your discussion writing to the draft Turnitin for plagiarism check.  Your faculty holds the academic freedom to not accept your work and grade at a zero if your work is not uploaded as a draft submission to Turnitin as instructed.
     
    Beck Institute for Cognitive Behavior Therapy. (2018, June 7). CBT for couplesLinks to an external site. [Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZH196rOGsc
     
    MedCircle. (2019, December 13). What a cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) session looks likeLinks to an external site. [Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-2WQF3SWwo