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October 5, 2023

Case Analysis – Strategy for BMW

1- What are the opportunities and threats that could impact the organization? Review all the general environmental categories. (PESTEL Analysis) Use Porter’s Five Forces model to analyze the company’s industry. Identify key competitors and analyze their strategies, core competencies, and competitive response.

2- What are the strengths or weaknesses of the organization?

Review factors within the company that are critical to the strategy of the firm and classify them as strengths or weaknesses. Look for resources, capabilities, and core competencies. Use the “Four Criteria of Sustainable Competitive Advantage”.

3- In the past, BMW has been able to successfully differentiate its products by engaging in value-adding value chain activities. What are some of these specific activities? How can BMW ensure its ability to continue with value-adding activities as it evolves into a maker of self-driving cars? Use the “Value Chain Analysis” to identify value-adding activities and functions. This question is not about Business or Corporate level strategies. focus on the functional level.

Case Analysis – Strategy for BMW

2- What are the strengths or weaknesses of the organization?

Review factors within the company that are critical to the strategy of the firm, and classify them as strengths or weaknesses. Look for resources, capabilities, and core competencies. Use the “Four Criteria of Sustainable Competitive Advantage”.

October 5, 2023

Literature – Annotated Bibliography

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Literature – Annotated Bibliography. The annotated bibliography provides hands-on practice, as well as the foundational framework, for writing the literature review section of a Single Subject Intervention Research Study proposal and report. The goal of completing the bibliography is to examine, analyze, and summarize an evidence-based practice that is an appropriate social work intervention for the population served by the student’s field placement agency/organization.

GUIDING QUESTIONS:

What is the evidence-based practice (intervention) addressed in the article?
What is the theoretical foundation for the intervention.
What is the problem being addressed?
Who is the population?
Why is this intervention the best suited for the problem and population?

The annotated bibliography provides hands-on practice, as well as the foundational framework, for writing the literature review section of a Single Subject Intervention Research Study proposal and report. The goal of completing the bibliography is to examine, analyze, and summarize an evidence-based practice that is an appropriate social work intervention for the population served by the student’s field placement agency/organization.

The bibliography must consist of at least three (3) journal articles, and the articles must summarize the findings of research studies published in peer-reviewed professional journals. Years from 2019-2023. Literature – Annotated Bibliography. The articles must show a direct relationship between the theoretical foundation and the evidence-based practice that is the basis for the intervention selected by the student for the research study. The bibliography must consist of at least three (3) journal articles, and the articles must summarize the findings of research studies published in peer-reviewed professional journals. Use APA referencing style.

October 5, 2023

Psychopathology – Mental Health Patients

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Psychopathology – Mental Health Patients. Analyze and apply critical thinking skills in the psychopathology of mental health patients and provide treatment and health promotion while applying evidence-based research.

Scenario:

Jax is a 66-year-old Caucasian female whose wife has encouraged her to seek treatment. She has never been in therapy before, and has no history of depression or anxiety. However, her alcohol use has recently been getting in the way of her marriage, and interfering with her newly-retired life. She describes drinking increasing amounts over the last year, currently consuming approximately a six-pack of beer per day. She notes that this amount “doesn’t give me the same buzz as it used to.” She denies ever experiencing “the shakes” or any other withdrawal symptoms if she skips a day of drinking.

Psychopathology – Mental Health Patients. Jax comments that her wife is her biggest motivation to decrease her alcohol use. She tells Jax that she gets argumentative and irritable when she drinks, though she does not always remember these incidents. She has also fallen while intoxicated twice, causing bruises both times and hitting her head on one of the occasions.

Questions:

Remember to answer these questions from your textbooks and NP guidelines. At all times, explain your answers. Describe the presenting problems/issues. Is there any information that was not provided that you would need to formulate a diagnosis? Generate a primary and differential diagnosis using the DSM5 and ICD 10 codes. What physiological and psychological processes lead to substance dependence?

Submission Instructions:

Psychopathology – Mental Health Patients. Your initial post should be at least 500 words, formatted and cited in current APA style with support from at least 2 academic sources. Your initial post is worth 8 points. You should respond to at least two of your peers by extending, refuting/correcting, or adding additional nuance to their posts. Your reply posts are worth 2 points (1 point per response.) All replies must be constructive and use literature where possible. Please post your initial response by 11:59 PM ET Thursday, and comment on the posts of two classmates by 11:59 PM ET Sunday. Late work policies, expectations regarding proper citations, acceptable means of responding to peer feedback, and other expectations are at the discretion of the instructor. You can expect feedback from the instructor within 48 to 72 hours from the Sunday due date. Use APA referencing style.

October 4, 2023

Child Adolescent Psychology

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Child Adolescent Psychology

Application Exercise 6.1: Components of Language

In this video, Dr. Erin Studer describes a fifth-grade boy with very limited language skills. When he started kindergarten, he had five words in his oral language vocabulary. Dr. Studer explains how the school has developed IEPs and provided interventions that have helped Pablo progress year after year.

CHIME: Dr. Erin Studer and Pablo

Consider what you have learned about Pablo’s speech and language skills and the assessments conducted by the school. Explain Pablo’s progress in each aspect of the components of language (i.e., content, form, and pragmatics).

Application Exercise 6.2: Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students

In this video, a high school teacher meets with a group of students from diverse cultures and listens to them express their feelings about the language and cultural differences they experience at school.

English Language Learners

How might teachers proactively address the concern expressed by these students when they state that teachers don’t understand their difficulties and their struggles?

Application Exercise 6.3: Working with Families to Develop Students’ Language Skills

Child Adolescent Psychology. In the following video, Dr. Studer briefly describes working with Pablo from pre-school through the fifth grade. Dr. Erin Studer, Executive Director of CHIME Institute’s Charter School Programs, discusses how a fully inclusive classroom allows Pablo to engage with his school community in meaningful ways that target the social and academic language experiences necessary for Pablo’s individualized goals.

CHIME: Pablo

Describe the intervention that helped Pablo begin to develop the pragmatics of language in kindergarten despite his lack of verbal skills.

Application Exercise 7.1: Decoding Strategies

In the following video, a teacher conducts a phonological awareness skills test with Ana. The teacher refers to the various activities as games and asks Ana to respond to questions about word sounds in each activity.

Phonological Awareness Skills Test

The textbook describes six decoding strategies readers employ to decode words they don’t know automatically. Identify the type of decoding strategy emphasized in this video. Use specific examples from the video and explain how this decoding strategy helps students identify words.

Application Exercise 7.2: Linguistic Approach

In this video, a teacher guides students to recognize similar sounds and spelling patterns in words that constitute a word family.

Word Families

Describe the phonics approach used by the teacher in this video. Identify this approach as explicit or implicit code instruction and support your answer.

Application Exercise 7.3: Explicit and Implicit Code Instruction

In this video, Mrs. Casey introduces new vocabulary words before students read the assigned story. In her work with the small group, Mrs. Casey uses several strategies to help students decode the words.

Mrs. Casey, Small Group Reading

Child Adolescent Psychology. Describe the explicit and implicit code instruction Mrs. Casey uses as she guides students to decode their new vocabulary words. Use APA referencing style.

October 4, 2023

Discussion – Criminal Defenses

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Discussion – Criminal Defenses. Two Prosecutions—Two Different Results. In 2002, Brian David Mitchell and his accomplice and wife, Wanda Barzee, kidnapped fourteen-year-old Elizabeth Smart from her home. Mitchell, a so-called street preacher, and Barzee held Smart captive for nine months, tethering her to a metal cable, subjecting her to daily rapes, and forcing her to ingest alcohol and drugs (Dobner, J., 2010). At one point, they transported Smart across state lines to California. Mitchell was put on trial for kidnapping and sexual assault in the state of Utah. The trial court found Mitchell incompetent to stand trial, and did not make a ruling forcing him to submit to medication to remedy the incompetency (Dobner, J., 2010). Discussion – Criminal Defenses. Unlike Mitchell, Barzee was involuntarily medicated pursuant to a state court order (by the same judge that heard Mitchell’s incompetency claim), and pleaded guilty to federal and state kidnapping, sexual assault, and illegal transportation of a minor for sex, receiving two fifteen-year sentences, to be served concurrently (Dobner, J., 2010). The federal government also instituted a prosecution against Mitchell for kidnapping and taking Smart across state lines for sex.

Discussion – Criminal Defenses. The US District Court judge held a competency hearing and found that Mitchell was competent to stand trial (Winslow, B., 2010). Mitchell pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity. Throughout the trial, Mitchell was often removed from the courtroom for loudly singing Christmas carols and hymns. A serious of experts testified regarding Mitchell’s psychological ailments, including a rare delusional disorder, schizophrenia, pedophilia, and antisocial personality disorder. Nonetheless, the jury rejected the insanity defense and convicted Mitchell of kidnapping and transporting a minor across state lines for the purpose of illegal sex (Dobner, J., 2010). If Mitchell had not committed federal crimes, he might still be awaiting trial in Utah. What is the purpose of putting Mitchell on trial rather than delaying the trial for mental incompetency? Is this purpose ethical? Use APA referencing style.

October 4, 2023

Case Study – Criminal Defenses

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Case Study – Criminal Defenses

Please make sure that your response is 100 words or more for each question/statement. You are a law professor searching for cases to illustrate certain legal concepts for your students. Read the prompt, review the case, and then decide which legal concept it represents.

The defendant’s vehicle matched the description of a vehicle seen in the vicinity of a burglary before the burglary, during the burglary, and after the burglary. The defendant claimed that the evidence was insufficient to prove he was an accomplice to the burglary. Does this case illustrate the legal concept of accomplice act, accomplice intent, or both? Read Collins v. State, 438 So. 2d 1036 (1983). The case is available at this link: http://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=8573128029213310764&hl=en&as_sdt=2,5&as_vis=1
The defendants, foster parents, were found guilty as accomplices to the felony murder of their two-year-old foster daughter. Although both defendants testified that the victim died from injuries experienced after a fall from a swing, medical experts reported that the victim’s injuries were inconsistent with that testimony and appeared to be the result of child abuse. Case Study – Criminal Defenses. The jury convicted the defendants as accomplices to felony murder after a jury instruction stating that an omission to act could constitute the criminal act element for accomplice liability when there is a duty to act, and parents have a legal duty to come to the aid of their children. Does this case illustrate the legal concept of omission to act, statutory interpretation, or both? Read State v. Jackson, 137 Wn. 2d 712 (1999). The case is available at this link: http://caselaw.findlaw.com/wa-supreme-court/1412039.html

The defendant, an electrical contracting company, was found guilty of violating OSHA regulations that led to an employee’s death. The victim, an apprentice in training, touched a live electrical wire and died from electrocution. The OSHA statute in question required “willful” conduct on behalf of the company. The jury instruction on willful stated that a company acted willfully or knowingly if individual employees of that company acted knowingly. The evidence indicated that some employees knew or were aware of live wiring in the vicinity of the accident. Case Study – Criminal Defenses. The defendant appealed and claimed that the jury instruction should have stated that a company acted willfully or knowingly if individual employees acted knowingly and had a duty to report that knowledge to the company. Does this case illustrate the legal concept of criminal intent, vicarious liability, or both? Read U.S. v. L.E. Meyers Co., 562 F.3d 845 (2009). The case is available at this link: http://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=2854285863509787279&hl=en&as_sdt=2&as_vis=1&oi=scholarr
The defendant was convicted of both first-degree murder and accessory after the fact to that murder. The trial court did not instruct the jury that the offenses were mutually exclusive and that they could only convict the defendant of one or the other. The defendant appealed on the basis that he was entitled to a jury instruction that prevented a conviction on both murder and accessory after the fact to murder. Use APA referencing style. Case Study – Criminal Defenses. Does this case illustrate the legal concept of the criminal elements required for accessory after the fact, the criminal elements required for murder, or both? Read State v. Melvin, No. 382PA09 (North Carolina 2010). The case is available at this link: http://caselaw.findlaw.com/nc-supreme-court/1549865.ht

October 4, 2023

Current Event Assignment

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Current Event Assignment. You must look through legitimate online media outlets and locate a news article that relates to the current chapter we are covering. The current event you submit must be a 250+ words summary of the article. It must also include 250+ words answering the question you will find in the chapter current event instructions. In addition, you will need to include a critical thinking question about the article. I do not need to see the article, just insert the http web address that I can click on and it will bring up the article itself. Any quoted material will not count toward the minimum word required for this assignment.

Research a recent news article from within the last 6 months that discusses what legislature do (from on page 178). Download a copy of the current event template (provided below) and answer all 4 questions. For question one, paste the URL of the news article you found from the internet. For question 2, write a 250-word summary of your news article. Question three you will need to explain the role and activities of legislatures. Please provide specific details to support your opinion. For question 4, you are to write a one or two sentence critical thinking question related to the article you just read. What unanswered questions did you find in the article? This question can be related to the subject of the article (such as the President or Governor) or the journalist who wrote the article (biased view point).

October 4, 2023

Criminal Defense Questions

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Criminal Defense Questions

Answer the following questions and make sure your response is 100 words or more for each.

Carol is on trial for battery, a general intent crime. Carol puts on a defense that proves her conduct was accidental, not intentional. Is this an affirmative defense? Why or why not?
Read State v. Burkhart, 565 S.E.2d 298 (2002). In Burkhart, the defendant was convicted of three counts of murder. The defendant claimed he acted in self-defense. The jury instruction given during the defendant’s trial stated that the prosecution had the burden of disproving self-defense. However, the instruction did not state that the prosecution’s burden of disproving self-defense was beyond a reasonable doubt. Did the Supreme Court of South Carolina uphold the defendant’s conviction for the murders?
Read Hoagland v. State, 240 P.3d 1043 (2010). In Hoagland, the defendant wanted to assert a necessity defense to the crime of driving while under the influence. The Nevada Legislature had never addressed or mentioned a necessity defense. Did the Supreme Court of Nevada allow the defendant to present the necessity defense?

Criminal Defense Questions

Answer the following questions and make sure your response is 100 words or more for each.

Carol is on trial for battery, a general intent crime. Carol puts on a defense that proves her conduct was accidental, not intentional. Is this an affirmative defense? Why or why not?
Read State v. Burkhart, 565 S.E.2d 298 (2002). In Burkhart, the defendant was convicted of three counts of murder. The defendant claimed he acted in self-defense. The jury instruction given during the defendant’s trial stated that the prosecution had the burden of disproving self-defense. However, the instruction did not state that the prosecution’s burden of disproving self-defense was beyond a reasonable doubt. Did the Supreme Court of South Carolina uphold the defendant’s conviction for the murders?
Read Hoagland v. State, 240 P.3d 1043 (2010). In Hoagland, the defendant wanted to assert a necessity defense to the crime of driving while under the influence. The Nevada Legislature had never addressed or mentioned a necessity defense. Did the Supreme Court of Nevada allow the defendant to present the necessity defense? Use APA referencing style.

October 4, 2023

Presenting the plan

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Introduction as to why this problem was selected.
This assignment for the project (to be included in the Appendix of paper).
Process(es) used to analyze the problem, and Presentation of the plan to include Power Point slides.

The PowerPoint and paper for the plan will be the graded project. The paper (including the plan) must be between 5-7 pages in length, not including the title, reference pages and appendix. This assignment requires a minimum of 5-7 scholarly references. There are no minimum requirement for the number of PowerPoint slides.

Presenting the plan. This final assignment is designed to provide an opportunity to integrate the skills addressed in this course. You are expected to work as alone and focus on analyzing a problem and develop a plan to address that problem according to the techniques you have honed in this class. Each paper-project will identify one of the problems of an organization posed by a team member. The assignment will include a PowerPoint which will present a plan on ways to solve the problem. The following elements should be included. The PowerPoint and paper for the plan will be the graded project. The paper (including the plan) must be between 5-7 pages in length, not including the title, reference pages and appendix. This assignment requires a minimum of 5-7 scholarly references. There are no minimum requirement for the number of PowerPoint slides. Use APA referencing style.

October 4, 2023

Discussion – Communication Appeals

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Discussion – Communication Appeals

Context: In thinking about communication, we use these appeals in many contexts. When we talk to people we are judging their credibility (and they are judging ours) based on the way we speak, the words we use, the tone of our voice and the way we dress among other things. Consider that we do the same thing when we listen to a song on the radio or look at a painting or watch a video. We make judgements based on imagery and color- tone and pitch.

Description: For this assignment, post a painting or picture (or copy of) that speaks to you. Consider the appeals you think it makes to you and other persons viewing it, as we considered in the Frida Kahlo painting. Be prepared to share with the class the following information:

Discussion – Communication Appeals. A link to the piece, and why you chose it. The background of the piece (author- painter’s info – a blurb about the piece). What you think the piece communicates (sadness-history-joy-contemplation). If your piece was to be judged as a speech, would it be argumentative? Persuasive? Informative?

Delivery: This post will be due Wednesday at midnight. Points will be deducted for not answering all parts of the questions.

Discussion – Communication Appeals. Context: In thinking about communication, we use these appeals in many contexts. When we talk to people we are judging their credibility (and they are judging ours) based on the way we speak, the words we use, the tone of our voice and the way we dress among other things. Consider that we do the same thing when we listen to a song on the radio or look at a painting or watch a video. We make judgements based on imagery and color- tone and pitch. Delivery: This post will be due Wednesday at midnight. Points will be deducted for not answering all parts of the questions. Use APA referencing style.

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