Gang Profile: Criminology

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Instructions

This paper should be 7-10 double spaced pages (the cover page and reference page DO NOT count towards the page count) in APA format with at least 5 scholarly sources. This assignment is worth 100 points. Points will be taken off for papers that fail to meet the minimum page requirement or failure to properly cited and format in APA. Please review the writing assignment general section of the syllabus for more details on paper requirements.

For this assignment you should choose a gang to do a detailed profile on. A list of potential gangs is included below for you to select from. If you would like to focus on a gang not on this list reach out to the instructor to get approval before you complete the assignment. All papers should include  introduction and conclusion sections. The paper should include all of the following topics.

  1. The history of the gang
  2. The gangs structure/organization
  3. The gang identifiers and symbols
  4. Current membership statistics and/or approximations
  5. Are females involved? If so discussion their involvement in the gang
  6. The scope of the geographic territories of the gang (where are they located)
  7. How the gang uses violence and crime to further its purpose (provide real life examples from current events).

List of Potential Gangs:

  • Gangster Disciples
  • Vice Lord
  • Crips
  • Bloods
  • Latin Kings
  •  Ñeta
  • MS-13
  • People Nation
  • Chicago Gaylords
  • Asian Boyz

How to improve the Hiring process in a business: Management

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Instructions
Applied Paper: Each student will write an applied paper consisting of all of the weekly assignments and articles shared in class. The paper should be on an organization. The paper should be written from a consultant’s perspective as if you were hired to assess an organization and make recommendations. The applied research paper should cover a topic in administrative strategy. The length of the paper should be 6 pages (not counting the cover sheet, reference page or appendix), double spaced, typed on 8 ½ x 11 paper, 12 pt. font. sheet, reference page or appendix), double spaced, typed on 8 ½ x 11 paper, 12 pt. font, with a minimum of ten scholarly references (not including any internal organizational documents). The paper should explain what type of strategies the organization currently has in place, including:

• What does administrative strategy mean, and how is it applied in your organization?

• How does administrative strategies impact your organization?

• What are some best practices that your organization uses in addressing strategic planning? What are some areas for improvement? Give some recommendations.

• What is the strategic plan?

• What are the policy’s strengths and weaknesses?

• Are the employees, managers, and executives knowledgeable about this policy? If so, how do the employees respond to this policy?

• Is administrative strategy managed sporadically or systemically within the organization?

• If the organization does not have any strategic plan, discuss the organization’s general strengths and weaknesses in light of strategic planning’s role within the organization.

Choose a Research Topic and an Interviewee

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Instructions
For this assignment, you should be interviewing a person who has expertise about a topic you are interested in. Please note that you should be conducting an actual interview; you should not be summarizing an interview conducted by someone else.

Part #1: Choose a Research Topic and an Interviewee

You do not need to submit this portion in writing, but you do need to accomplish this in preparation for your research assignment.

In preparation for your research proposal letter in the next topic, you will need to choose a topic for your proposal. This research proposal letter will be directed to an audience who can create change (Congressperson, business administrator, or other similar audience). In the proposal, you need to suggest a change or a solution to a current problem. Examples of strong proposal topics would be things like funding ideas for an animal shelter, starting a recycling program in a community, suggesting a better plan for public transport, or another idea that interests you. You will be proposing solutions for these issues. Choose a topic that you are passionate about and for which you will be able to develop at least one solution. While this information should be enough for you to choose a topic, please consult the assignment sheet within Topic 7 if you have more questions about this assignment.

Once you choose a topic, it’s time to choose a credible expert to interview on that subject. In other words, you should avoid choosing an interviewee who is a close friend or family member unless that person truly is an expert in the field. This credible expert should have 10+ years of experience in his or her discipline. Choose an interviewee who not only could offer some specific details about the problem but one who may also be able to offer suggestions of a plausible solution. Use the information contained in the lesson presentation to secure and conduct a successful interview.

Part #2: Summarize and Synthesize Your Interview

When you summarize and synthesize, you take the smaller pieces (the sections of the interview) and develop them into one cohesive piece. Doing this exercise will help you prepare for the research proposal letter, where you will need to incorporate at least a few ideas from the interview.

To successfully summarize and synthesize, you might find it helpful to follow this sequence for your essay:

1) Provide Background Information:
In your introductory paragraph, introduce your audience to your interviewee. What is his/her name? What is his/her experience? if relevant, where is the interviewee employed?

2) Summarize the Interview:
While you want to avoid the all-too-predictable question and answer format, you should provide information about what you learned from the interview. Take a look at your original questions, group them into categories, and use those categories to build your body paragraph(s). Also, you may note the interviewee’s reactions in your summary as well. Was the interviewee nervous about answering a question? Did he/she seem knowledgeable in the subject matter? Make this summary work for you by including whatever details and responses you feel are important and will help you when you write the research proposal.

3) Synthesize the Interview:
In the conclusion, synthesize the interview. To synthesize just means that you should consider all of the information you gathered from this interview and draw conclusions. What did you learn from the interview? How did the interviewee and/or the interview help you gain a deeper understanding of your topic? Other findings?

No source citations are required for this assignment, but please review the rubric to get a better idea of how you will be assessed.

 

The guidelines for this assignment are as follows:
Length: This assignment should be a minimum of 350 words.
Header: Include a header in the upper left-hand corner of your writing assignment with the following information:
  • Your first and last name
  • Course Title (Composition II)
  • Assignment name (Interview Summary)
  • Current Date
Format:

 

  • MLA-style source documentation and Works Cited1
  • Your last name and page number in the upper-right corner of each page
  • Double-spacing throughout
  • Standard font (Times New Roman, Calibri)
  • Title, centered after heading
  • 1″ margins on all sides
  • Save the file using one of the following extensions: .docx, .doc, .rtf, or .txt

Underline your thesis statement in the introductory paragraph.

Fundraising & Development and Outreach & Advocacy Measures- Comment

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Instructions
READ THE FOLLOWING POST AND PROVIDE YOUR OPINION OF THE WRITER’S POST USING IN-TEXT CITATIONS TO SUPPORT YOUR RESPONSES. UTILIZE THE SAME REFERENCES PROVIDED BELOW.

POST

Fundraising Efficiency Ratio would be used by the Housing for All organization to measure how efficient the agency is at raising money. It is calculated by dividing the unrestricted contributions by the fundraising expenses, or the money spent by the agency to raise the unrestricted contributions. The higher the result, the more efficient the organization is at raising money. By monitoring this ratio, management can gauge whether or not its fundraising efforts are becoming more or less efficient and re-evaluate as necessary (GBQ, 2016).

Donation growth is an example of fundraising and development performance ratio that compares gifts secured over two different time periods that are usually chronological, showing whether the number of donations receive is increasing or decreasing over the time period observed (Grella, 2021). Outreach and advocacy performance ratios are used to assess the number of community events held, number of advocates trained and number of community commitments made verses completed FMA (2015).

Monitoring financial performance provides key insights that helps management answer questions about how well the organization is gaining or losing financial strength, performing in line with the agencies objectives and business plan, and identifying the most and least profitable areas of the organization (Authors,  2018).

References

Authors (2018). The importance of monitoring financial performance. Dolfiblue Chartered Accountants Business Advisers. Retrieved from: https://dolfinblue.com/the-importance-of-monitoring-financial-performance/

FMA (2015). Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for Nonprofit Organizations https://fmaonline.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Sample-KPIs-all-areas.pdf

GBQ, (2016). Key Performance Indicators for Nonprofit Organizations https://gbq.com/key-performance-indicators-for-nonprofit-organizations/

Austria and the Global South: Political Science

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Instructions
A review essay must be written using the uploaded text and at least 2 additional sources.

– The purpose of this review essay is to present the main arguments of the texts in a coherent manner and analyze them critically – your opinion counts!
The  readings  form  the  raw  material  on  which  you  are  to  make  a  coherent  and  critical argument. The challenge is to find and make connections between the texts, to make the readings speak to each other by reorganizing them and selectively focussing on certain aspects of them. Ask yourself: What would author S say to the arguments of Author T? Review essays present an argument based on the readings so that they are in constant and full dialogue with one another. This requires imposing your own intellectual framework on the readings. Do not just say “Article A focusses on X, but Article B  focuses  on  Y”.  The  aim  is  to  get  a  theme  that  runs  through  the  entire  essay  so  that  in “reviewing” the readings you are really interpreting them. This is an interpretive, exegetical exercise. You might want to briefly introduce what the authors talk about in general, but very quickly you need to impose some intellectual order on all the information. The reader needs to know at every page where you are going and how it all fits together. A good rule of thumb to follow is to pose a question at the outset of the paper that you intend to answer. This gives the paper a coherence and allows you to keep a focus on your question and its answer, using the readings critically for this purpose.

Organization change paper : Management

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Identify and describe an organization that has gone through a change process and the impact on the organization. Include in this paper strategies that the organization implemented during this change process. Additionally, identify one challenge associated with change management faced in the organization and provide a solution you would utilize in overcoming this challenge. Some challenges include but are not limited to job satisfaction, organizational commitment, job stress, work-life balance, job-culture fit, organizational communication, etc… You are to include a leadership component to this paper, in that as you have studied various leadership theories/models for your Leadership Paper you will be able to include a leadership perspective to this paper (you can use points in your leadership paper for this section). This paper must demonstrate your overall understanding of the course content and its relation to the importance of organizational change and leadership. Include course content in this paper. It must have at least 10 pages of content (excluding cover page, abstract page, and reference page). It must have at least 10 reference sources, peer-reviewed journal articles and books. APA formatting is required.

 

This paper should be written in the following format with related subheadings included:

 

Introduction: introduction to organizational behavior and specific challenge your paper will focus on; explain the challenge experienced by the organization

Literature Review: a well-written summary of the literature that you reviewed in relation to your identified challenge

Leadership: style of leadership model/theory that would best be able to meet the needs associated with the challenge

Recommendations: provide your own recommendations to meet the needs associated with the challenge identified in your paper

Conclusion: concluding points of the paper

Was the War of 1812 “necessary”?

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Instructions

Research Paper

Note: Before beginning this assignment, read through information contained in the Scholastic Dishonesty link in the course menu to the left.

The core assignment of this course is a documented research paper (approx. 4 – 5 pages double spaced, 12-point font).

  • The paper should support a thesis statement with information gained from research or investigation.
  • The paper will not be just a report presenting information, but will be a paper that carefully examines and presents your own historical interpretation of the topic you have chosen and your interpretation of the information you have gathered.
  • The paper may include consideration of problems and solutions, define key terms, or refute arguments against your thesis statement.

It will be important to choose a topic of interest to you.

  • Approach this assignment with an open and skeptical mind, then form an opinion based on what you have discovered.
  • You must suspend belief while you are investigating and let the discoveries shape your opinion. (This is a thesis-finding approach.)
  • Once you have found your thesis, write the paper to support it.

You will use some of the following critical thinking skills in this process:

  1. Choosing an topic (from the list below)
  2. Gathering information, summarizing sources
  3. Analyzing and evaluating sources
  4. Defining key terms
  5. Synthesizing information, comparing and contrasting sources
  6. Testing a thesis, making a historical argument, using refutation
  7. Amassing support for a position
  8. Documenting sources

Because this may be a longer paper than you have written before and a complex process is involved, it is recommended that you complete this paper using the following steps:

  1. Choose a topic from the list of preselected topics related to U.S. History up to 1877 (Chapters 1-15) below that you would truly like to explore and that you are willing to spend some time on. Your chosen topic should be focused. Choose a question that you really want to answer. You may want to begin with more than one topic in mind.
  2. Do some preliminary reading on the topic(s). You may begin with the textbook, then further explore the information available. Refine your topic. Summarize your topic, your interest in the topic, the questions you want to answer, and a hypothesis you want to test.
  3. Gather information from a variety of sources. Use a minimum of four sources for your paper, and at least one must be a primary source.
    • Examples of primary sources are ones that are used in our discussion forums 2 – 8.
    • They are sources that are contemporary to the times under investigation.
    • An example of a secondary source is our textbook, though the textbook also contains excerpts of primary sources, which you may use as a source in your paper.
  4. Outline the results of your research and the plan for your paper (you are not required to submit the outline).
  5. Write the final draft and be sure to cite your work in either APA or Turabian (Chicago Manual of Style). Footnotes are preferred. No cover sheet required nor desired.

PSY 6200 W10 Assignment 2

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Assignment 2: Final Project Assignment Submission

 

For this assignment, you will finalize your Final Project Assignment for final submission.

To Prepare:

  • Review the Final Project Rubric, located in the Course Information area, and consider the requirements needed for the Final Project Assignment.
  • Select two psychological theories and consider how they relate to the topic you chose in Week 1 and Week 7.

 

 

Final Project

Write a  6-page paper (apart from the title page and references) that references at least four scholarly articles and includes at least two unique articles for each theory you selected. Your final project should include the following:

  • A description of both theories you selected and why you think they are appropriate for the topic you chose from the list or that was pre-approved by your Instructor by the end of Week 5
  • A comparison of the theories related to the topic you chose
  • An argument as to which theory provides a better understanding of the topic
  • An explanation of how psychological research grounded in these two theories helped you better understand the characteristics of the topic
  • An examination of cultural aspects that might contribute to that understanding

See Final Project Overview in Week 10 Learning Resources for layout.

Note: Support your statements with the scholarly sources you identified using both in-text citations and references. It is strongly recommended that you include proper APA format and citations.

Special Reading Questions Socrates: Philosophy

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Instructions
Questions:a) “The good of our children must take priority in our decisionmaking.” How would Socrates respond to this statement? b) If your child committed a crime, under what circumstances would you turn them in? Under what circumstances would you help them evade the law?

Answer both regarding the attached PDF
minimun 250-max 750 words

Advocacy Statement: Healthcare

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Instructions

I would like to advocate for veteran’s health in particularly about suicide and the growing number of suicides. The VA’s limited resources for veterans suffering from mental health issues.