The instructions from the professor are as follows:

In 2017, you were hired by Organization ABC, a financial institution, as the Director of Human Resources. Organization ABC has 250 employees, who work remotely. The main headquarters of the company are located a small town in North Carolina. Very few employees have been to the organization’s headquarters due to the cost of travel and lack of time.

Although you are aware of past organizational issues, after four months of working with Organization ABC, it has been brought to your attention that the ethical culture of the organization is poor, at best. While Organization ABC has a strong fraud prevention program, there is not a Code of Ethics in place. Frank Jones, the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of ABC is quoted saying, “We don’t need a Code of Ethics. The majority of our employees know that our organization, from our mission statement, requires honesty and high-quality production. As a smaller company, I don’t believe that creating a Code of Ethics will change any of the fraudulent acts that have occurred in the past. People are people, and some people just don’t care about their actions.”

As the Director of Human Resources, you realize that 50 employees, in the past year, have been terminated due to fraudulent behavior. Furthermore, given discussions with organizational leaders, besides the CEO, there is a major push for a Code of Ethics, thus, it is your job to convince Frank that a code of ethics is needed.

For this assignment, please provide the following information:

An overview of the importance of a Code of Ethics.
Typical components of a Code of Ethics within a company in your industry.
The strategy you would use to convince the company to create a Code of Ethics, including real-world examples of how organizations have profited from a Code of Ethics.
Potential drawbacks/issues associated with a lack of a Code of Ethics.

• Start paper with (“I argue…”), 2) Evidence and Analysis, then 3) briefly State the Significance of your argument (on this, and all other issues
• Follow the specific forum topic assignments (though, of course, you have some leeway to follow a good idea where it goes, as long as you make a narrow, and original, argument that analyzes the text)
• Analyze the language, don’t just rehash the plot, and don’t just quote without explaining your unique and creative ideas about the language you quote.

Three inconclusive paths to wellness
Three inconclusive paths to wellness
Forum assignment (This Unit’s assignment is a bit more complex, so please read this carefully so you can respond successfully): Tayo’s quest for wellness in this first chunk of the novel includes at least three main elements, or three main paths, but so far all seem flawed. First, his experience at the VA hospital and with modern treatment (“Modern” though in the 1940s is not “modern” today, though I ask you to forget what you know about effective treatments today–stick to the world represented in the novel). Second, his experience with Old Ku’oosh, the traditional medicine man. Third, spending time with his veteran friends. Now, of course, we all know that binge drinking is not a cure for PTSD, not at all. So don’t waste time simply rehashing the fact that drinking is probably not the best thing for him. But the drinking times are often called a “ritual” in the novel, and their drinking involves telling stories—and “narrative” is a major issue in Ceremony (see the Unit 3 and Unit 4 video lectures, more in the coming Unit 5): both the way the narrative of the plot unfolds, and how stories (both personal narratives and larger social narratives–see the video lecture) interact with people’s identities and relationships and health. The drinking binges also offer two things Tayo hopes might be therapeutic —forgetting the present pain and retreating into memories, and/or cathartic bouts of anger and violence .
So the novel asks us to think about these three attempted routes to health, but, I again repeat, the novel doesn’t represent any of them as the ultimate cure for Tayo. But the first and second may seem at least a bit helpful? And the third may contain some clues to the overall messages of the novel? In your forum posts, I’d like you to contribute to our understanding of these three paths. Below are two caveats:
To a large extent, you’ll have to put your own medical knowledge and/or personal experiences in the background (and I know that can be tough) and instead concentrate on what the novel is saying about them. Sometimes students want to say, for example, “he should be on SSRIs and have a designated therapist” etc. or “his experience is like my cousin’s when he returned for war” or similar things … well, I’m sure you are right, but that doesn’t help us interpret this fictional novel, so no matter how interesting they are, such comments are not terribly helpful. Instead, ask: how are these three “treatments” represented? Why do they fail in the novel? What may be their potential strengths? As always, be sure to pay close attention to the language the novel uses about these three elements. Since 500 words is very short, you may comment quickly on all three but the ideal post would probably concentrate your close-reading analytical skills on one of the three.

Finally, as you think about these three “Treatments” (1=Mid-20th century modern psychotherapy and medical care, 2=Traditional Pueblo Medicine Man ceremonies and cures, and 3=Socialization with his Indian Veteran Buddies, including drinking, talking, storytelling, repressing, yelling, and fighting), try to construct an argument about what his experience with these three “treatments” tell us about the symbolic/ideological/political/philosophical work of the novel. That might make a good final thought for this forum post because, for this Unit, I realize that the final part of the ideal forum post, what the “PowerPoint” calls “The Significance” of your ideas, is tough to do because you’ve only read one portion of the novel. So end with a comment about how 1, 2, or all 3, of these attempted routes to health give some symbolic meaning to Tayo’s character, or the world he lives in. In other words, don’t settle for just analyzing Tayo, the person, as though he were real. What messages is the text sending via him and his illness and the paths to health?

• Start paper with (“I argue…”), 2) Evidence and Analysis, then 3) briefly State the Significance of your argument (on this, and all other issues
• Follow the specific forum topic assignments (though, of course, you have some leeway to follow a good idea where it goes, as long as you make a narrow, and original, argument that analyzes the text)
• Analyze the language, don’t just rehash the plot, and don’t just quote without explaining your unique and creative ideas about the language you quote.

Three inconclusive paths to wellness
Three inconclusive paths to wellness
Forum assignment (This Unit’s assignment is a bit more complex, so please read this carefully so you can respond successfully): Tayo’s quest for wellness in this first chunk of the novel includes at least three main elements, or three main paths, but so far all seem flawed. First, his experience at the VA hospital and with modern treatment (“Modern” though in the 1940s is not “modern” today, though I ask you to forget what you know about effective treatments today–stick to the world represented in the novel). Second, his experience with Old Ku’oosh, the traditional medicine man. Third, spending time with his veteran friends. Now, of course, we all know that binge drinking is not a cure for PTSD, not at all. So don’t waste time simply rehashing the fact that drinking is probably not the best thing for him. But the drinking times are often called a “ritual” in the novel, and their drinking involves telling stories—and “narrative” is a major issue in Ceremony (see the Unit 3 and Unit 4 video lectures, more in the coming Unit 5): both the way the narrative of the plot unfolds, and how stories (both personal narratives and larger social narratives–see the video lecture) interact with people’s identities and relationships and health. The drinking binges also offer two things Tayo hopes might be therapeutic —forgetting the present pain and retreating into memories, and/or cathartic bouts of anger and violence .
So the novel asks us to think about these three attempted routes to health, but, I again repeat, the novel doesn’t represent any of them as the ultimate cure for Tayo. But the first and second may seem at least a bit helpful? And the third may contain some clues to the overall messages of the novel? In your forum posts, I’d like you to contribute to our understanding of these three paths. Below are two caveats:
To a large extent, you’ll have to put your own medical knowledge and/or personal experiences in the background (and I know that can be tough) and instead concentrate on what the novel is saying about them. Sometimes students want to say, for example, “he should be on SSRIs and have a designated therapist” etc. or “his experience is like my cousin’s when he returned for war” or similar things … well, I’m sure you are right, but that doesn’t help us interpret this fictional novel, so no matter how interesting they are, such comments are not terribly helpful. Instead, ask: how are these three “treatments” represented? Why do they fail in the novel? What may be their potential strengths? As always, be sure to pay close attention to the language the novel uses about these three elements. Since 500 words is very short, you may comment quickly on all three but the ideal post would probably concentrate your close-reading analytical skills on one of the three.

Finally, as you think about these three “Treatments” (1=Mid-20th century modern psychotherapy and medical care, 2=Traditional Pueblo Medicine Man ceremonies and cures, and 3=Socialization with his Indian Veteran Buddies, including drinking, talking, storytelling, repressing, yelling, and fighting), try to construct an argument about what his experience with these three “treatments” tell us about the symbolic/ideological/political/philosophical work of the novel. That might make a good final thought for this forum post because, for this Unit, I realize that the final part of the ideal forum post, what the “PowerPoint” calls “The Significance” of your ideas, is tough to do because you’ve only read one portion of the novel. So end with a comment about how 1, 2, or all 3, of these attempted routes to health give some symbolic meaning to Tayo’s character, or the world he lives in. In other words, don’t settle for just analyzing Tayo, the person, as though he were real. What messages is the text sending via him and his illness and the paths to health?

If at all possible, please write this with the company being a media company, like VICELAND, and based out of the state of Texas for the applicable laws.
The instructions from the professor are as follows:

Throughout this course, we have reviewed the importance of ethical behavior and diversity, as related to HR policies, procedures, training, organizational culture, etc. For the past eight weeks, a number of topics have been discussed, which should assist each of you in further understanding the importance of HRM in creating a culture of success. For your Final Portfolio Project, you will utilize the knowledge gained throughout this course to complete an Employee Handbook for a company in which you hope to start up.

This Employee Handbook should be modeled after the one created by the National Federation of Independent Businesses (https://www.nfib.com/portals/0/PDF/Members/Legal/Guides/employee_handbook.pdf ). Within your handbook, you must include the following sections:

Welcome section
Workplace Commitments (specifying information on inclusion and team building)
Disciplinary Policy (in terms of ethical behavior and anti-discriminatory practices)
Acknowledgment of Receipt.
Each section should be thorough. Within the various sections provided in your Employee Handbook, you must justify your rationale for specific points through the utilization of scholarly research and state and federal laws. This is your opportunity to present your work in a detailed yet creative manner, which displays your topic knowledge.

The length and formatting requirements for your Employee Handbook include:

Six or more pages in length and include a title page, section headers, an introduction, a conclusion, and a reference page.
Formatted according to the CSU-Global Guide to Writing & APA.
Cite a minimum of seven sources, which should be academic peer-reviewed scholarly sources to support your positions, claims, and observations. The CSU-Global library is a great place to find these resources.

In an eight- to ten-page paper (not including the title and reference pages) research and discuss the SEC’s company filings requirements. In your paper:
Describe how investors can use the Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) EDGAR database
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to quickly research a company’s financial information filed on Forms 10-K and 10-Q.
Identify the differences between the Annual Report send to shareholders and the Annual Report on Form 10-K, which must be filed with the SEC.
Describe the contents of:
Form 10-K SEC filings
Management Discussion and Analysis
Auditors’ Report
Selected Financial Data
Discuss how the SEC”s requirement for domestic and foreign companies using US GAAP to provide their financial statements in the XBRL format can improve financial reporting?
Most publicly traded companies are examined by numerous analysts. Find analysts’ ratings about a company of your choice by visiting biz.yahoo.com/I. Provide a comparison over time and across companies in the same industry by answering the following questions:
How many analysts rated the company?
What percentage rated it a strong buy?
What was the average rating for the week?
Did the average rating improve or decline relative to the previous week?
Your paper should be formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center
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. It must include at least six scholarly sources, including a minimum of three from the Ashford University Library, in addition to the text.
Carefully review the Grading Rubric
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for the criteria that will be used to evaluate your assignment.

For the essay paper, I want you to pick a topic that interests you about cybercrime and criminal justice. Cybercrime can include cyberterror. It should address both aspects of this course— cybercrime’s causes and correlates, and the criminal justice response to cybercrime.

One possible topic would be to pick a specific cybercrime, like cyber-theft, describe the level of harm, its potential causes given the theories we have studied, and then propose a reasoned criminal justice response given what we know, which can include law, punishment, detection, investigation, and prosecution (or all components of the criminal justice system). Or you could pick a specific cybercrime and diagnose the problems we have policing it. Regardless of the topic, I want you to send me the topic along with a topic statement so that I know what you are going to write about. You should do this by week 3; so be thinking of a possible topic. Your topic sentence should be stated as a claim that you are going support with evidence. Remember that your opinion only matters if you can back it up with evidence so I want to see academic citations for any claims you make in the paper

Which of the teacher dispositions relates to the concept of fairness? How does a teacher display fairness in the classroom? Give two concrete examples.

The disposition to teach document specifically addresses fairness by stating ‘Educators should promote social justice and equity, maintain appropriate standards of confidentiality, and exercise fairness in all areas including assessment.’ I also think that addressing the social and cultural atmosphere of the class and setting expectations imply fairness in some sense. I think that this means having the same expectations for all students, SPED or general education, holding each student accountable by the same standards, grading fairly without granting one student an advantage, and maintaining fair discipline throughout. I can see challenges for special education teachers in all these areas. For example, giving assessments a special education teacher needs to be mindful of assessment accommodations, but understand that the modifications need to leave the rigor and the critical content intact. Accommodations should be in place to assist the student in specific areas that they need support, not to make the work easier for one over another. Assessments should have a grading rubric that is fair for both general and special education students. I may allow a student with an IEP to use a calculator on an assessment, but not for portions of the assessment that specifically measure a student’s individual ability to calculate or demonstrate knowledge of a specific area.

Fundamentally all of this is tricky. It means getting to know your students, awareness of their IEP’s, and understanding the curriculum and how changes affect it. We owe it to our students to be creative, knowledgeable, and ultimately fair.

I need a response.

This paper relates to the need to have solid ethical standards and foundations in the field of Family Life Education.  Students should summarize the following selected reading under the specified headings:

Duncan, S. & Goddard, W. (2005).  Family life education:  Principles and practices for effective outreach.  Thousand Oaks, CA:  Sage.

After reading the supplemental materials, please include into your essay the following information:

1. Principle Summary: Summarize EACH of the ethical principles discussed in the article (no direct quotes should be used). This section should be about 2 pages.
2. Application: Thoroughly discuss how you will apply these principles to your work as a FLE. This section should be about ½ page.
3. Personal Biases: Identify and discuss awareness of your personal biases or attitudes and identify which populations of individuals would be the most challenging for you to work with (ex: sex offenders, people of a different race than you, people of a different religion than you, alcoholics, drug addicts, etc.). This section should be about ½ page.
4. Strategies: Identify what strategies you will utilize to challenge and overcome those biases to allow you to successfully work with those populations that are challenging for you. This section should be about ½ page.
5. Please include the four headings in the ethical philosophy: Principle Summary, Application, Personal Biases, and Strategies
6. A rubric is provided
7. Must be 3 full pages, 30 points possible

 

http://twp.duke.edu/twp-writing-studio/resources-students/genres

http://www.sjsu.edu/faculty/wooda/2B-HUM/Readings/Baldwin-Sonnys-Blues.pdf

https://genius.com/Jay-z-spiritual-lyrics
Question 1
Please review creative writing as a genre. (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. Please explain if you believe the voice in Baldwin’s “Sonny Blues” is distinct from Jay Z’s “Spiritual.” To help you answer this question, please think of the following two passages below, on from “Sonny Blues” and the other from “Spiritual.” Does Baldwin’s voice as a writer come across differently from Jay Z’s? How? Why? Are they appealing to two distinct audiences?
The first is from “Sonny Blues” (the narrator is thinking about his mother and the suffering she has endured):
“I always see her wearing pale blue. She’d be sitting on the sofa. And my father would be sitting in the easy chair, not far from her. And the living room would be full of church folks and relatives. There they sit, in chairs all around the living room, and the night is creeping up outside, but nobody knows it yet. You can see the darkness growing against the windowpanes and you hear the street noises every now and again, or maybe the jangling beat of a tambourine from one of the churches close by, but it’s real quiet in the room. For a moment nobody’s talking, but every face looks darkening, like the sky outside. And my mother rocks a little from the waist, and my father’s eyes are closed. Everyone is looking at something a child can’t see. For a minute they’ve forgotten the children. Maybe a kid is lying on the rug, half asleep. Maybe somebody’s got a kid in his lap and is absent-mindedly stroking the lad’s head. Maybe there’s a kid, quiet and big-eyed, curled up in a big chair in the comer. The silence, the darkness coming, and the darkness in the faces frighten the child obscurely. He hopes that the hand which strokes his forehead will never stop—will never die. He hopes that there will never come a time when the old folks won’t be sitting around the living room, talking about where they’ve come from, and what they’ve seen, and what’s happened to them and their kinfolk.”
The second are verses from “Spiritual”:
“Yeah, I am not poison, no I am not poison / Just a boy from the hood that / Got my hands in the air / In despair don’t shoot / I just wanna do good”

Question 2
Please read summary as a genre. (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. Once you have read it, please explain in your own words what is expected of a student writer preparing a summary as a genre.

Question 3
Please compare argument essay (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. as a genre to literature review (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. as a genre. Once you have read both descriptions, please list two features how an argument essay is different from a literature review?

Question 4
Please list three features that sets the film based on Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper” a part from her story. That is, please indicate three ways the film differs from Gilman’s story.
Question 5
from Baldwin’s “Sonny Blues” (the narrator and his brother, Sonny, driving together in a cab as they travel back to Harlem, their childhood town):
So we drove along, between the green of the park and the stony, lifeless elegance of hotels and apartment buildings, toward the vivid, killing streets of our childhood. These streets hadn’t changed, though housing projects jutted up out of them now like rocks in the middle of a boiling sea. Most of the houses in which we had grown up had vanished, as had the stores from which we had stolen, the basements in which we had first tried sex, the rooftops from which we had hurled tin cans and bricks. But houses exactly like the houses of our past yet dominated the landscape, boys exactly like the boys we once had been found themselves smothering in these houses, came down into the streets for light and air and found themselves encircled by disaster. Some escaped the trap, most didn’t. Those who got out always left something of themselves behind, as some animals amputate a leg and leave it in the trap. It might be said, perhaps, that I had escaped, after all, I was a school teacher; or that Sonny had, he hadn’t lived in Harlem for years. Yet, as the cab moved uptown through streets which seemed, with a rush, to darken with dark people, and as I covertly studied Sonny’s face, it came to me that what we both were seeking through our separate cab windows was that part of ourselves which had been left behind. It’s always at the hour of trouble and confrontation that the missing member aches.
Passage #2 from Jay Z’s “Spiritual”:
“Sick of hiding in holes and behind hyperbole / This is real me unfold / Gangster in love, I’m thuggin’, I’m huggin’ / This is tougher than any gun that I raised / Any crack that I blazed, that was nothin’ / Peeling back the layers, uncovering / Scars that never healed, I never kept it this real”
Passage #3 from Costes’ “Between the World and Me” (talking to his son after learning about the verdict in Michael Brown’s death in Ferguson, Missouri:
That was the week you learned that the killers of Michael Brown would go free. The men who had left his body in the street would never be punished. It was not my expectation that anyone would ever be punished. But you were young and still believed. You stayed up till 11 p.m. that night, waiting for the announcement of an indictment, and when instead it was announced that there was none you said, “I’ve got to go,” and you went into your room, and I heard you crying. I came in five minutes after, and I didn’t hug you, and I didn’t comfort you, because I thought it would be wrong to comfort you. I did not tell you that it would be okay, because I have never believed it would be okay. What I told you is what your grandparents tried to tell me: that this is your country, that this is your world, that this is your body, and you must find some way to live within the all of it.
Passage #4 from Lee’s “The Bridge of Suffering”
The metaphor of the bridge provides an ideal base for an exploration of Baldwin’s continuing vision of “otherness,” that is of multiple alienation-religious, racial, familial and sexual; of community; and of the connecting links between them. The image conveys a number of his central concepts and devices. It speaks passage, and thus of his characters’ recurrent initiatory journeys, in space and time, from innocence to awareness. It refers to structure which counters chaos and specifically spans a void. This is a concept particularly significant for his artists who sing and play the blues, testifying to at least momentary triumph over loneliness and abandonment. Appropriately for the duality or ambivalence which informs Baldwin’s emotional and intellectual responses, and incidentally his style, the image conveys a bonding of opposites. Metaphorically the bridge suggests the union of artist and audience, races, brothers, and lovers.
Reflective Question (a minimum of 50 words)
How do all four passages speak to each other? That is, these four passages come from four separate texts, all of different genres, yet there is a powerful common theme on racism and suffering. Knowing this, how are these four texts speaking to each other about this theme? For example, do these four texts talk about resilience in the midst of pain, or the crushing devastation of pain? Do these four texts, speaking together, provide any insight on how you — whether you are a person of color or not — understand and handle injustices with no sight of compensation and fair treatment? Do you think these four texts explore the fundamental and existential dilemma of humanity: as flawed beings living within flawed institutions amongst cruelty, ignorance, and fear, how do we create a space for ourselves and our love ones that affirm our dignity and worth?

Submit a business case proposal, which is a summary of your selected business case for the course project. The business case proposal will be submitted as a Word document and in paragraph form. This business case proposal provides your instructor insight into the project you are selecting and allows for instructor feedback and guidance in terms of the scope of the business case for the purpose of this course.

The first milestone of the course project is an introduction. The sections to include as part of the introduction are:
Background – This section provides information about the system, processes, and other aspects of the system such that the reader can understand the business problem in the context of the system.
Problem Statement – This section should clearly state the problem to be solved, why it is a problem, and how it impacts the system.
Audience – This section should discuss your communication plan, identify the different audience types in the project, and what type of information is communicated to each audience type.
Note that the course project intent is to introduce students to an entire systems analyst process. Each milestone is fairly significant in size if performing an actual project. For the intended learning and exposure to the course project topics, please know that assumptions will have to be made and that any such assumptions should be documented.

For additional details, please refer to the Final Project Document and the Milestone One Guidelines and Rubric document.

You will identify four themes from the readings for this week, where you encountered each theme within our readings, how different authors approached each theme, the relevance of each theme to our class, and examples of each theme (hint: most of the readings include examples of the themes discussed). For instance, one theme that is found throughout our readings is the theme of “sexuality as power and embodiment”.
Make sure you clearly identify each theme, discuss how each author approached each theme, the relevance of each theme to our class, and examples of each theme.

Reading materials:
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