INSTRUCTIONS
The Mastery Case Study (MCS) is attached and the grading rubric is available for view on this assignment.

CASE PROMPT

The Fall 2018 MCS is entitled “‘Detroit’s Troubled Waters: Race, Politics, Bankruptcy & Regionalism.”

This case describes the bankruptcy process of the City of Detroit, with a focus on the management of its largest physical asset, the Detroit Water & and Sewerage Department (DWSD), which served nearly four million people at the time of the case in 2014. In your analysis, consider the fate of the DWSD, its management, and the services it provides.

Your MCS report should address the question: What are the key lessons of public administration debated or learned in the changing operations surrounding DWSD in 2014?

In your MCS report, you may choose which aspect or aspects of the case to analyze and address, including but not limited to the urban economics at play in Detroit, the responsibilities of municipal service provision, the implications of racial and economic justice, or the leadership dynamics of the governor-appointed emergency manager. In your narrative response (connecting all your ideas), draw not only on the evidence given in the case, but also on theory and evidence from other sources (properly cited in APA format).

PROCESS

Prepare a professional document in narrative format addressing the prompts above – in accordance with the facts and other supporting information. Students are expected to give proper attribution for work authored by others in the proper form of citations and references, using the APA format. All submissions will automatically be filtered through a plagiarism tool on Blackboard.

Your case analysis should be 15 to 25 pages (references not included) with 1 inch margins, double-spaced Times New Roman 12-point font.

At the beginning of the document, include the pledge:
“I certify that the work proffered is entirely a result of my independent effort and analysis. I further certify that I will not seek or receive external aid, nor give any aid to any other student who taking the Mastery Case Study. Further, I acknowledge the policy that students may only attempt to take the Mastery Case Study exam three (3) times (“sittings”). I acknowledge I am entering a “sitting”, even if I do not complete the exam.”

Do not sign or give your name; your Blackboard submission is your assent to this statement.

Your MCS document and all relevant attachments should be uploaded ANONYMOUSLY. Do not include any identifying information in your submission. To use the case study rubric, click on the MCS & Submission link assignment, and “View Rubric”.
Work- related issues, such as late working hours, overtime, computer problems, the lack of internet connectivity, lack of childcare, and family emergencies, etc. are not acceptable reasons for not submitting your Mastery Case Study on time. Requests for extended time to complete the MCS will not be granted.

Project Background:

1) Develop your personal LinkedIn Profile as per “all star” status

2) This project provides an opportunity to leverage the data contained within LinkedIn to design and develop your personal career path and strategy. This is a research project, therefore, it will require you to: collect data (select 10 publicly available LinkedIn profiles); analyze data using quantitative techniques; produce findings and insights; and report, visually present (via graphs and charts within the report) and discuss your results.

Research Question: What are viable career path patterns in terms of entry-level jobs, subsequent career path progress, and career path movement for recent Ted Rogers School of Retail Management graduates?

Sample
• Select a purposive sample of 10 publicly available LinkedIn profiles of retail professionals. The profiles should meet 3 criteria: 1) they should detail the professionals’ career positions from their first job; 2) the professionals’ careers should include a Canadian university business degree; and 3) they should represent professionals’ whose career paths you admire.

Findings & Insights
• What evidence did you find about (for example):
– Demographic characteristics
– Types of sectors
– Formal educational background
– Training and development
– Job titles
– Number/tenure of appointments
– Lateral/vertical shifts within sector – Across sectors
– Types of Careers – i.e. Organizational (i.e. stable employment with one employer) and Occupational (i.e. mobility between companies)
– Geographic mobility
– Informal/formal networking (i.e. Number of connections, membership in associations…)
– Other categories (e.g. Languages spoken, interests, volunteer work, groups…)

Analysis.
• Analyze the relationships between the characteristics of the career paths and movements evident in the sample.
• Consider patterns in timing (i.e. after 5, 10, 15 years), sectors, cause and effects of employment changes (i.e. related to organizational or sectorial changes, changes in personal KSAs, networks, etc.)
• The analysis MUST utilize tables and charts to visually display your key findings and insights.

Discussion and Conclusions
• What did your results tell you about the retail professionals and their careers?
• What unique or unexpected insights did you uncover about this career path?
• How do your results compare/contrast with what you’ve experienced in your internship/learned in the TRSRM program?
• What are the limitations of your research/analysis?
• What are the implications of your research for your personal career?

Format
• Approximately 2000 words (not including Appendices).
• Must use the sub-titles provided.
• Word or PDF document, 12 point font, double spaced, 1-inch margins.
• Must include title page, table of contents, appendices, list of references and page numbers.
• Must use professional business writing in an essay style including introduction and conclusion.
• Checked for spelling and grammar errors, proofread and self-edited.
• Due Date: Soft copy (via Turnitin Drop box in D2L) and hard copy (in class) due at beginning of class in week 10

Locate a recent news or journal article that is an example of one of the strategies discuss in this module and post a link to that article. Discuss the actions that were taken by the company and tie them back to one or more of the strategies discussed in this module. What is business ethics? Why should a company’s strategies be ethical? In addition, describe why it is important to consider the Saint Leo core value of responsible stewardship when developing a strategy. How did your company’s strategy exemplify responsible stewardship?

(Note: Even though this assignment says locate an article and discuss, the rubric for discussion posts requires three sources to back up the writing. Almost all of the other students provided the required references besides the article)

You may choose any biological, chemical or physical agent (physical
agent being a source of ionizing or non-ionizing radiation) which presents an
environmental hazard, directly or indirectly, to humans. You must describe what the
agent is, the nature of the risk (e.g., exposure effects), how it moves through the
environment before reaching a target host (e.g., soil, groundwater, food chain, human),
and how it moves (and possibly changes) within the body following entry. Include
hazard source(s) and recommendations for control measures. The paper represents 25%
of your grade.
Length: 6 – 8 typed (double spaced) pages, excluding references. References must be
from peer-reviewed sources in science literature, cited (numerically sequenced within the
body of the paper and a separate reference page included. Paper is to be submitted
electronically only on the class blackboard, as a MS Word document

Connecting experiential learning theory (Dewey and others), transformative learning (Mezirow, Dirkx, and others), neurophysiology (Pelowski), Critical Theory (social emancipatory) and Vygotsky’s socio-cultural theory. The aim is to write a qualifying paper that will be a precursor to my proposal. This should include the foundational literature and conceptual and theoretical framework that my proposal will be written upon. The prompts should give a guiding framework but the final paper should reflect my inquiry and the state of the art as we know it to be today. I would prefer to keep the same writer for this paper and the writing of my co-writing of my proposal. Must have familiarity with Adults Learning Theory and the way that art is being deployed here. Vygotsky has never been brought into this the conversation before so adding his work here is quite new but I would like to see how it can fit. This is for 10 pages on top of and integrated into what I have already written.

Assignment 2: Teaching Technique Essay (2500 words max)
Examine best practice in planning, teaching, and assessing the four skills in second language acquisition general. Evaluate the various techniques and strategies with reference to the literature.
Create a lesson plan and an assessment task based on what you have learned about current best practice. Justify your lesson plan and assessment task with reference to the literature.
Reflect on lesson planning or assessment design. What do you think about the value of lesson planning? What did you find challenging about designing a lesson plan and/or assessment task? Write a 500-word reflection on your learning process for this assignment.
Marking criteria Possible marks
Discussion: 20 marks
Practical application: 10 marks
Academic writing: 5 marks
Reflection: 5 marks

The texbook needs to be referenced and is:
Brown, H.D & Lee, H (2015). Teaching by principles: An interactive approach to language pedagogy (4th Edition.). New York: Pearson.
Notes: The lesson plan needs to be a task-based lesson

First, Read this – you are going to create an algorithm – don’t worry you don’t need to have any coding experience.

Submit: An algorithm with 20 steps that matches folks looking for romance/friendship

An algorithm for our purposes is going to be a set of instructions. You should have a list of at least 20 of these instructions. Go wild with this. Based on what we have read and watched about flaws in algorithms – and the violence they commit against various folks of political interests, genders, sexualities, body types, and race – do your best to build something that is better. This assignment has no definitive answer and that’s ok. I want you to be experimental here – and try things out – even if they fail. A good place to start is the video about OK cupid. We have a model – a set of instructions for a computer to follow that is in place (see the watch video). You can copy the model from OK Cupid and then make alterations that you think will make it better.

Will you decrease questions? What about picture swiping? Be a little bit of a social engineer. How will you use an app/algorithim to make the world better/more equitable?

There is so much written on this subject. Do some research to get inspired (algorithms and dating)

Please submit a list of 20 instructions a computer can follow to match people based on romance/friendship

It would help if you can draw a tree using draw.io. The way a computer works is that it makes a decision based on a yes or no answer to a previous question.

Here is a primer for your model structure.

How Decision Tree Algorithm works

Watch:

Inside OK Cupid: The Math of Online Dating

Watch:

The Era of Blind Faith in Big Data Must End

Read:

Oh Great: There’s a Horrible Dating Trend to Worry About

Read:

‘Least Desirable’ How Racial Discrimination Plays Out Online

The essay demonstrates your ability to write clearly and concisely on a selected
topic and helps you distinguish yourself in your own voice. What do you want the
readers of your application to know about you apart from courses, grades, and
test scores? Choose the option that best helps you answer that question and
write an essay of no more than 650 words, using the prompt to inspire and structure
your response. Remember: 650 words is your limit, not your goal. Use the full
range if you need it, but don’t feel obligated to do so. (The application won’t accept
a response shorter than 250 words.)

– Pick a topic
• The lessons we take from obstacles we encounter can be fundamental to later
success.
• Recount a time when you faced a challenge, setback, or failure.
• How did it affect you, and what did you learn from the experience?
– Prepare an outline
Lessons I take from obstacles
– Write your thesis statement
• Your thesis statement will have two parts. The first part states the topic, and
the second part states the outline.
– Write the body
• The body of your essay argues, explains or describes your topic. Each main
idea that you wrote in your diagram or outline will become a separate section
within the body of your essay.
• Each body paragraph will have the same basic structure. Begin by writing one
of your main ideas as the introductory sentence. Next, write each of your supporting
ideas in sentence format, but leave three or four lines in between each
point to come back and give detailed examples to back up your position. Fill in
these spaces with relative information that will help link smaller ideas together.
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Friday, September 21, 2018
– Write the introduction
• The introduction should attract the reader’s attention and show the focus of
your essay.
• Begin with an attention grabber. You can use shocking information, dialogue, a
story, a quote, or a simple summary of your topic. Whichever angle you
choose, make sure that it ties in with your thesis statement, which will be included
as the last sentence of your introduction.
– Write the conclusion
• The conclusion should consist of three to five strong sentences. Simply review
your main points and provide reinforcement of your thesis.
– Add the finishing touches
• Check the order of your paragraphs. Your strongest points should be the first
and last paragraphs within the body, with the others falling in the middle. Also,
make sure that your paragraph order makes sense. If your essay is describing
a process, such as how to make a great chocolate cake, make sure that your
paragraphs fall in the correct order.
• Review the instructions for your essay, if applicable. Many teachers and scholarship
forms follow different formats, and you must double check instructions
to ensure that your essay is in the desired format.
• Finally, review what you have written. Reread your paper and check to see if it
makes sense. Make sure that sentence flow is smooth and add phrases to
help connect thoughts or ideas. Check your essay for grammar and spelling
mistakes.

Complete Health History and Genogram:
One Complete Physical and Health History with Genogram. You will complete the physical assessment and health history using your textbook as a guide. Please refer to pages 784-788 of your class textbook (as an example). You may choose a close friend or family member. The person must be 18 years of age or older. Analyze the data to identify potential risk and available health resource.
1. Your document must be in APA format, Times New Roman, 12-point font, double-spaced, and include a title page.

2. The following subtitle must be included in your paper: Biographic Data, Source of History, Reason for Seeking Care, History of Present illness, Past Health, Family History with Genogram, Review of System, Functional Assessment, Physical Examination (Head-to-Toe Examination), and Assessment. Please follow the pictures example attachments (pages 784-788) that I sent you to do the paper. And I also sent you the lecture pictures attachments (pages 49-58), it explains exactly what needs to be done for each subtitle. (Please keep it simple and clear). FOLLOW THE GRADING CRITERIA BELOW TO MAKE SURE EVERYTHING IS COVERED

3. For reason for seeking health: you may talk about patient complaining of Headache. (Please make sure you assess PAIN using the PQRST).

4. DO NOT assess the Obstetric History under subtitle Past Health.

5. Head-to-Toe Examination

6. It must include: The patient, the patient parents, and the patient grand-parents ONLY

7. NO SIBLINGS OR COUSINS

________
Grading Criteria Possible Points
Biographic Data/Source of History/Reason for Seeking Care/ History of Present illness
• Must include the following
 Name, address, age and birthdate; birthplace; gender; marital partner status: race; and occupation
• Source of History
• Reason for Seeking Care
• History of Present illness
Professor comments: 10
Past Health
• Must include the following
 Childhood illnesses
 Accidents or Injuries
 Serious or Chronic illnesses
 Hospitalizations
 Operations
 Obstetric History
 Immunization
 Last Examination Date
 Allergies
 Current Medications
Professor comments:
15
Family History with Genogram
• Identify the patient
• Must include the following
 Age of patient and family member
 Health status of patient and family member
 A legend
Professor comments: 20
Review of System
• Include health promotion
Professor comments:
20
Physical Examination (Head-to-Toe Examination)
Professor comments:
20
Assessment
Professor comments:
10
APA format (title page, headers, and reference page)
Professor comments:
5

Social Work
Prepare your personal narrative based on the guidelines below:

The personal narrative should address the following:
1) What is your understanding of social work as a profession and its responsibility to enhance justice for oppressed and impoverished individuals, families, groups and communities? What led you to choose social work as a profession? Which aspects of our educational program led you to apply to Department of Social Work? Describe your career plans.

2) If you are employed in a social service agency, describe your position and its importance to your development as a social worker. How will a graduate program in social work contribute to your current employment or future employment?

3) If you are not employed in a social service agency, describe your position and how it relates to the social work profession. If your current position does not relate to social work describe any volunteer experience or community service work that you were or are engaged in and its importance to your development as a social worker. How will a graduate program in social work contribute to your future employment?

4) Discuss a contemporary social problem as it relates to children and families or juveniles involved with the juvenile justice system. Include the following in your discussion:
A) your reasons for identifying it as a social problem;
B) what could be done to address the problem;
C) what your role might be as a MSW in addressing the social problem on a micro level or macro level. This is a very important part of your personal narrative; therefore, please give serious thought and attention to your response.