In this paper you will compare the ethical views of all the philosophers we have studied. Please explain in detail the various elements on which they agree and disagree. You may approach this question in a variety of ways. For example, you may present your analysis thematically by explaining how each philosopher views the ethical issues of the highest good, happiness, virtue, duty, character, the place of God in ethics, pleasure, etc. Or you may approach the issue by comparing pairs of thinkers (for example, Kant vs. Mill and Aquinas vs. Aristotle; or Kant vs. Aristotle and Mill vs. Aquinas, etc.), so long as all philosophers are treated.

Be sure to provide thorough and clear explanations of each philosopher’s position and how they arrived at that position (that is, their arguments for their views). Last, present your own argument for why you believe one ethical system is better than the others. (Note: I am here looking for an argument, not an opinion – recall the essay on hard thinking from Week 1).

Papers must be approximately 6 pages, double-spaced, 12 point type, MLA format.

Sources used for class:
Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, trans. M. Ostwald, Library of Liberal Arts

· Aquinas, On Law, Morality, and Politics, 2nd Edition, trans. R. Regan, Hackett

· Kant, Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morals,trans. J. Ellington, Hackett

· Bentham and Mill, The Classical Utilitarians, Ed. J. Troyer, Hackett

ASSIGNMENT IS WRITTEN ON BEHALF OF COMPANY C
PLEASE NOTE THERE ARE 4 DIFFERENT COUNTRIES IN ATTACHMENT- ASIA, NORTH AMERICA EUROPE AND LATIN AMERICA

1. What are the 3-4 chief elements of your company’s marketing strategy IN EACH COUNTRY (as concerns pricing, advertising, rebates, use of celebrity endorsements, S/Q ratings for branded footwear, number of footwear models, and deployment of all the other weapons of competitive rivalry to outmaneuver rival footwear companies)?

2. What are the 3-4 chief elements of your company’s finance strategy IN EACH COUNTRY as concerns use of debt, dividend payments, sales/purchases of stock, use of cash, and approaches to achieving a good credit rating?

3. What options for being a first-mover does your company have? Do any of these first-mover options hold competitive advantage potential?

You will choose a topic related to health psychology. Choose your topic carefully. Your topic should be one that involves current negative health behaviors for at least some part of the population. Your topic should also be one for which sufficient research exists. You should meet with me to have your topic approved. Once you have received approval for your topic, follow the instructions below:
1. Research and read about the topic. Your research should include a minimum of seven peer reviewed scholarly papers relating to your topic.
a. ONLY SCHOLARLY SOURCES ARE PERMITTED FOR THIS PAPER!
b. Your research should include scholarship that incorporates different points of views, theories, or conclusions. Include at least two sources to satisfy this criterion.
2. Using the sources you have read, prepare a literature review that summarizes the papers you have read.
a. Your literature review should summarize each of the articles that you have chosen. You must write your own summery. You may not use the abstract of the article.
b. Your review should include a discussion of how the article contributes to an understanding of the topic you have chosen.
c. Your literature review should include each article cited appropriately in APA format.

PAPER TWO: Practical Application [100 pts] due: Nov. 27, 2018 at 1:35 pm
Using the topic you have chosen in part one, consider how the principles of health psychology can influence people to change their behaviors. Write a paper that develops a program for improving health behaviors for the topic you have chosen. Your paper should include:
1. A summary (based on your literature review) of the problem, including the negative health behaviors associated with the problem. Please cite all sources in proper APA format.
2. A set of reasonable goals for improved health behavior.
3. Using psychological principles, how you recommend those goals be reached.
4. You should explain how those recommendations are to be implemented. What societal changes would have to occur in order for the goals to be reached? What societal changes are likely to occur if the goals are achieved?

The Research Papers are assigned to take you on an exploration about a topic of interest to all of us: The Internet of Things (IoT). These include many devices that are connected to the Internet beyond servers, desktops, laptops, tablets, and Smartphones. Many are very easily configured to connect to Wi-Fi.

Some of the concepts that we focused on with the First Research Paper are still relevant including confidentiality, integrity, and availability (CIA triad), authentication, accountability, and access control. The IoT is rapidly expanding, so this is a real area for concern and will very likely be increasingly important in your career.

The Second Research Paper will extend our focus from the First Research Paper on how to enhance the security of the Internet of Things (IoT).
Deliverables for the Second Research Paper
1. Recognize that any device that automatically or can be manually connected to the internet could be consider part of the IoT
2. What types of devices do you already have that would be considered part of the IoT?
3. Select at least two IoT devices that you, or many people already have in their homes, to be the focus for this Research Paper.
4. What IoT devices are you likely to get in the next year?
5. What vulnerabilities are common with these IoT?
6. What are some ways to eliminate or reduce the vulnerabilities of IoT devices?
7. How can you Wi-Fi be configured to mitigate the vulnerabilities of IoT devices?
As you are doing research and writing your paper, think about the following
• How can cryptography can be used to facilitate security?
• How is it implemented?
• How can the security of IoT be improved (future directions)?
Format for the Research Paper
• Research Paper is to be at 4-6 content pages (submitted in Microsoft Word
• .docx format or PDF format)
• One (1) page Summary about the enhancing security of the IoT and how to make remote connections more secure and less vulnerable
• Three (3) to five (5) pages about what you discovered through your research
• At least three (5) academic and/or professional quality references (not Wikipedia or Vendor’s White Papers)
• One (1) page reference (APA format)
• In text citations corresponding to your references (APA format)

Please be sure to submit work that is a result of your own effort: plagiarism is unacceptable – for more details, please see the Academic Integrity Policy in the Syllabus section.

Your original words (150-200 words; approximately ½ – 1 page), APA Style), submit to Canvas Discussion Board; use proper APA citation(s) and reference(s).
Summarize two or three of the readings (no more than 2 – 3 sentences.
Identify a concept from the reading;
summarize the definition of the concept in your own words (no more than 2 – 3 sentences).

Connect the readings to

1) a current event(s) that is occurring within the past year
OR
2) to your own social work practice experiences (in the past or recently). Offer critical analysis.
3.) Incorporate a question to your readers that relate to your material, thus facilitating discussion between each other.

Respond to a minimum of two discussion post:
Consider responding to the question being posed by your writer:
Consider your classroom processes in relationship to your readings.
Try responding to questions posed by fellow students in their posts.
Try responding to these questions.
• What stands out for you?
• Do you agree or disagree with a particular idea that came up? If so, why or why not?
• Or did you have an a-ha moment? If so, what is its impact on you?
• What unexpected question(s) are you now left with? (Please go beyond [for example] “how do we stop racism?)

Peer Response #1
Carel Germain (1980) discusses social context from an ecological context. Germain (1980) believes that an ecological perspective of social work focuses on external forces as well as internal forces of the profession and the transactions between the two. Germain believes that the combination of internal forces, external forces, and the transactions effected the outcome of the professional, the service user, and the effectiveness of the service. External factors in the profession are summarized as changes in the technological environment, informational environment, aspects of law, economic and political environment, institutional environment, and the cultural environment. Internal forces in social work include methodological distinctions, differences in the level of education in the profession, and the definition of social work. There are efforts to change the internal forces along with the changes of external forces that occur with time. Time and space plays a large role in the ecological perspective, and the internal forces are subject to change with the environmental changes that occur over time (Germain, 198).
Decision-making is a large component to the social work practice. There is much context to consider when looking at a social work case; there are many factors that contribute to decisions made by social workers, many of which are messy. Rather than only focusing on evidence-based practice, we must utilize supervisor and peer questioning to determine why decisions were made 9Dore, 2015). I found this article to be interesting because I have felt the pressure in decision-making and judgement calls already in the practice. There are a lot of things to consider in majority of our cases as social workers and this article provided a little comfort, knowing that we can’t always work with an evidence-based intervention. I am relieved every week when I meet with my supervisor and further discuss each case and learn more about decision-making and the process that comes with it in this profession.
Germain, C. B. (1980). Social context of clinical social work. Oxford Journals, 25 (6), 483-488.
Dore, I. (2015). Context, not evidence, is everything in social work. The Guardian.

Peer Response #2
CHAYLYN ENGEBRETSEN
SundaySep 23 at 12:52pm
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These articles reflect the intent of creating multicultural environments within the work place and enabling these services to encompass the needs that are lacking for diverse populations. Rather than strictly encouraging the expanse and creation of these environments, many of these articles reflect the difficulties to do so. Environmental forces are influencing the changing dynamics of the social work field; forces such as: 1.) Nuclear and toxic waste buildup in environment which is directly affecting the health of many, 2.) Technological advances which are infringing upon the confidentiality and privacy rights of clients, allowing access to all sorts of information, 3.) Changes in law which are inflexible and difficult to work within, 4.) The general lack of income and employment opportunities within the community, 5.) Professionals moving into the bureaucracy scene, enabling many individuals to do social work without the proper title, and 6.) Sex norms and gender roles are becoming fluid and evolving (Germain, C. B., 1980). Additional challenges were mentioned within the other articles: 1.) Sociopolitical environment, 2.) Organizational dynamics, 3.) Conceptualization of change, and 4.) Consultant competence (Hyde, C.A., 2004). Despite these challenges, it was suggested that proper leadership development, assessment and planning, consultant selection, and collaborative environmental relationships could be a solution to these general problems that are faced by social workers in promoting a multicultural work environment and community (Hyde, C.A., 2004).
The difficulty of developing these environments is obvious. In general, it is an easy “solution” to mention inclusivity of diverse individuals- both in gender, race, religion, beliefs, etc. But the societal integrations of these challenges mentioned above may disregard or override the simplicity of bringing in more voices. My fear in reading these articles was especially prevalent in the bureaucracy dilemmas that we face as a social work force. Many are encroaching upon our job, calling themselves social workers, when in fact, the training and the licensure is non-existent. Even further, our professional name is lacking credibility (perhaps due to this inconsistency of who is a social worker and who isn’t), which also gives us less power as a whole. On the other hand, I do understand that the jobs that are meant for social workers are everywhere- it may be impossible to provide an individual to fill those shoes, when our field is so difficult and not enough social workers are being pushed through college to do so. Do we get rid of the jobs that aren’t properly employing social workers? Is our ethical duty to allow employment slots to be open to those that aren’t properly trained? Or is our underlying duty to provide assistance to our community strong enough to override the frustration that social workers aren’t the ones employed when they should be?
My purpose in bringing in these questions is my fear that our impatience to promote multicultural diversity services to our clients is also allowing non-social workers into our field because of our dire need for more individuals. Am I way off mark, or is this something to look into?
References:
Germain, C. B. (1980). Social context of clinical social work. Social Work, 25(6), 483-488.
Hyde, C.A. (2004). Multicultural development in human services agencies: Challenges and solutions. Social Work, 49 (1), 7-16.

Your manager requires you, as the accountant, to enter each sale immediately. Recently, lunch hour traffic has increased at the jewelry store. To avoid service delays, the assistant manager asks you to take customers’ cash and make change without entering sales. The assistant manager says she will add up cash and enter sales into the accounting system after lunch. She says that, in this way, the register will always match the cash amount when the manager arrives at three o’clock.

Briefly provide answers to the following questions:

State one ethical concern that you have about the assistant manager’s request. Justify your answer.
What approach would you take to express your views on the request? Explain your answer.

You will be asked to respond to the questions below.
Step 1 – Previewing/pre-reading (handwritten or typed depending on your preference)
1. What is my purpose for reading this evaluation?
2. What can the title tell me about the piece I am reading?
3. Who is the author? What do I know about him or her?
4. How is the text structured or organized?

Step 2 – Active reading: Annotate the sample review (handwritten)
Annotate the text as you read it. Select a method that will work for you in regards to marking key elements. Some students prefer multiple highlighters or pen colors while others may prefer to develop a symbol set which represents different elements.
• Mark the thesis (main idea) and the main points of the piece. Label them as main idea and supporting points.
• Mark the criteria the author uses to evaluate the subject.
• Write summaries of each paragraph/section in the margins of the text.
• Mark key terms and unfamiliar words (Example – key terms starred * and unfamiliar words marked with a question mark or circled).
• Write your comments, questions, and notes in the margins of the piece.
• Write your connections to your personal experiences related to the piece.
• Mark any elements that need a reread or parts that you would need to come back to (Example – brackets or a different color highlighter).
• Underline any sources that author has used, including interviews with experts.

Step 3 – Post reading: Summary and Analysis (typed)
Take what you have done with English 1101 student’s evaluation, and write a summary and analysis of the piece that includes multiple levels of comprehension: literal, inferential, and applied. Include all three levels of comprehension in regard to your text. You should address the questions below in your summary and analysis.

Section 1 – Summary
Level 1: Literal – Who wrote the piece? What is it about? (Write a brief summary that includes the author, title, thesis and main points.) What are the criteria the author uses to evaluate the campus service or restaurant?

Level 2: Inferential – How does the writer feel about the subject (what he/she reviewed)? How do you know? (Describe evidence from the text.) What (if any) outside sources does the writer use?

Section 2 – Analysis

Level 3: Applied – Examine the evaluation for assumptions, credibility, and potential bias:
• What assumptions does the writer make about the intended reader? (What connections does the writer make to other texts? What kinds of examples are included?) Provide evidence of the writer’s assumptions.
• Is the author credible (trustworthy, believable, and knowledgeable) on this topic? Provide evidence.
• What is the author’s bias towards the topic? (Use the author’s background to consider bias or writing to determine if there is bias.) Provide evidence to support your claim(s). If you cannot find evidence of bias, describe what you did to look for potential biases.

Step 4: Reflection
After you have completed the above activities, write a reflection. Use the following questions to help you:
1. How effective was the level of persuasion in convincing you to use this campus service or visit the restaurant?
2. How will you ensure that your evaluation will fulfill its purpose (to persuade or dissuade your intended audience)?

Step 5: Outline for English 1101 evaluation
Use what you have learned from reading an example and from planning ideas in your English 1101 class to help you create an outline for the evaluation you will write in English 1101. Your outline should include your thesis (main idea) with the criteria you plan to use and the main points you plan to write for your body paragraphs.

The written critical appraisal should be a narrative summary of the strengths and weaknesses that you note in the study. Use the following guidelines to examine the significance of the problem, fit of the framework, rigor of the methodology, and quality and relevance of the findings in published studies.

Introduction and Literature Review
1. What are the research problem and purpose?
a. Is the problem clinically relevant?
i. What evidence do the authors use to support their claim of clinical relevance (see question 2)?
b. Does the purpose narrow and clarify the focus or aim of the study?
c. What is the research question?
i. What is the null hypothesis?
2. Does the literature review provide a rationale and direction for the study?
a. What fields are represented among the sources?
b. Do the authors cite classic work in the field?
c. Do the authors use the review of literature to support their claims to clinical relevance?
d. Are the sources > 6 years from date of publication?
3. Is there an identifiable theoretical framework?
a. Is the framework presented with clarity and linked to the study purpose, variables, and findings?
4. What are the study variables?
a. Do the variables reflect the concepts identified in the framework?
b. Are the variables conceptually defined?
5. Are Evaluate the objectives, questions or hypotheses, and variables; are they logically linked to the study purpose, framework, design, and results?

Methods
1. What is the study design?
a. Did the authors do something to participants to measure an outcome (experimental), or did they simply observe something about participants (observational).
b. What are the strengths and weaknesses of the design?
2. Respond to the following questions that are relevant to the design used in the study.
a. For experimental methods:
i. If the study had a treatment, is it consistently implemented?
ii. Are participants, data collectors, and/or researchers blinded to the treatment?
iii. If the study has treatment and comparison groups, are these groups equivalent?
b. For observational designs
i. Is the timing and method of the observation likely to capture the relevant experience?
ii. What is the role of the observer with relation to the participants? Are they known to one another already, or is the observer naïve to the setting or people involved? How does this status influence the data collected?
3. What kind of sampling technique do the authors use?
a. What are the potential biases in the sampling method?
b. Is the sample size sufficient to avoid a Type II error?
c. Was the sample size determined by a power analysis?
d. Was the attrition rate high?
e. Was the sample likely to find people with the relevant condition for study?
4. What measurement methods were used and are they clearly described?
a. Are the variables operationally defined based on previous research and/or theories?
5. Respond to the following questions that are relevant to the measurement approaches used in the study.
a. Scales and questionnaires
i. Are techniques to administer, complete, and score the instruments provided?
ii. Are the reliability and validity of the instruments described?
iii. If the instrument was developed for the study, is the instrument development process described?
b. Observation
i. Are the techniques for recording observations described?
ii. Is interrater reliability described?
c. Physiological measures
i. Are the accuracy, precision, and error of the physiological instruments discussed?
ii. Are the methods for recording data from the physiological measures clearly described?
6. Data collection
a. Is the training of data collectors clearly described and adequate?
b. Is the data collection process conducted in a consistent manner?
c. Are the data collection methods ethical?
7. Are the rights of human subjects protected?
a. Are the HIPAA privacy regulations followed in conducting the study?
b. Is there any potential coercion to participate, or are participants at any risk of harm by participating?
8. Evaluate the study design: does it provide a means to examine all of the objectives, questions, or hypotheses and the study purpose?

Results/Conclusions
1. What method of data analysis do the authors use?
a. Do data analyses address each objective, question, or hypothesis?
b. Are data analyses guided by, and consistent with, the theoretical framework?
c. Are data analysis procedures appropriate to the type of data collected?
d. What are the strengths and weaknesses of the chosen analytic methods?
2. Are tables and figures used to synthesize and emphasize certain findings?
a. Are the figures and tables clear?
b. Do the figures and tables supplement, or simply repeat, the written analysis?
c. What additional information do the tables and figures offer?
3. Was the sample size sufficient to detect significant differences?
a. Was a power analysis conducted to examine non-significant findings?
b. Was the study designed to be able to detect a clinically relevant difference between study groups?
4. Evaluate the results: do they examine all of the objectives, questions or hypotheses and the study purpose?
5. What are the conclusions?
a. Are the conclusions guided by, and consistent with, the theoretical framework?
b. Do the authors include all of the objectives, questions or hypotheses and the study purpose?
c. Are the conclusions based on statistically significant and clinically relevant results?
d. Are significant and non-significant findings explained?
e. Were the statistically significant findings also examined for clinical relevance?
f. Are the implications for practice consistent with study conclusions?
6. Did the researchers identify important study limitations?
a. What other limitations might be a factor in the utility of these results?
7. Do the authors put study findings in the context of previous research?
a. Do the authors provide relevant ideas for future research?
8. Evaluate this study: Based on the findings of this study, and in the context of previous research, is it appropriate to generalize the study findings?
a. What is the level of evidence offered by this study?

Write a brief (2-3 page) report on your findings of King Fisher Aviation’s financial status and include the following:
From Scenario 1, evaluate the technology proposed by Shawn Paschal. What is your recommendation on the adoption of this technology? Explain your reasoning.
From Scenario 1, what do you recommend to King Fisher regarding changing their 30 day collection period? Explain your reasoning.
From Scenario 2, what are your recommendations on the investment project? Explain your reasoning.
From Scenario 2, what are your recommendations for investment in the new technology?
From Scenario 3, evaluate King Fisher’s target capital structure. What are your recommendations? Consider the impact of taxes and explain your reasoning.

Attached are the problems and the solved answers on the spreadsheets, below are the 3 scenarios we were given.

Scenario Overview: King Fisher Aviation is in the business of green jet fuel, an advanced renewable fuel alternative to traditional jet fuel. The process used produces green jet fuel from a variety of sustainable feedstocks. King Fisher Aviation uses technology that allows them to meet regulatory compliance obligations for renewable energy in the aviation transportation fuel sector, as well as produce high-quality fuel. You have recently taken on the role of financial manager for the young and growing company.

Scenario 1: King Fisher Aviation is in the business of green jet fuel, an advanced renewable fuel alternative to traditional jet fuel. The process used produces green jet fuel from a variety of sustainable feedstocks.
You have recently taken on the role of financial manager for the young and growing company and were given a file that was in progress when the previous financial manager left the position

Scenario 2: King Fisher Aviation is ready to grow and is considering investing in new technologies. As the financial manager for King Fisher Aviation, you are asked to provide some critical information on company bonds, present and future values, and cash flow in order to make some tough decisions and appropriate recommendations to the Chief Executive Officer (CEO).

Scenario 3: The CEO of King Fisher Aviation has asked you, the financial manager, to review the company portfolio. You need to calculate the expected return and standard deviation on company stock, consider the risk-free rate, and find the Weighted Average Cost of Capital (WACC). Also, you were asked to calculate the cost of bond debt, for a more complete picture of the company’s financial status.

Why do you want to study your chosen major at Georgia Tech, and how do you think Georgia Tech will prepare you to pursue opportunities in that field after graduation? (max 250 words)

Biology has interested me more than any subject as I grew up. Whether it is animals to ecological problems, I have always had a particular interest in the field of biology, even if I was not fully aware of it at the time. I used to tell people that I wanted to be a zookeeper throughout my elementary school years because I intrigued by how animals gained their own specific traits and utilized them to survive. Later, I also began to wonder how animals and other organisms, including human, interact with the environment around them, as I recently worked on a research project that helped determine the amount of fecal contamination, which brought me into an interest in doing biological research as I discovered how the collected data could demonstrate the corresponding factors between animals and environment.
I believe that Georgia Tech has geographical benefits for creating various opportunities for internships, allowing students to apply their knowledge in real-life situations, as it is located in Atlanta, a big city. I want to gain actual research and more working experiences during my college time for future career development. I believe that Georgia Tech will support me to be prepared for life outside of college through affluent networking and resources it has. In addition, I am truly impressed from the fact that Georgia Tech considers preparing students to life after college very seriously, and I believe that Georgia Tech would help me gain a multitude of opportunities for my future career life.

In our application review, we want to get to know you better. One way to do that is to understand a typical day for you. Please describe your typical day. (Max 250 words)
Every morning starts at 6 AM to the beeping sound of my phone alarm that is all too familiar to most people. After some toast with cream cheese and some coffee, I get ready to go to Grafton High School. I drive there with the radio on and instantly my car becomes a karaoke machine, and I am singing my heart out to myself, which helps me wake up and gives me a slight boost of cheerfulness to help me get through the day. After 10 AM, I have the delightful chance to decide where I want for lunch before I make my way to Governor’s School at 11:20. The possibilities are endless from a school lunch with friends, ramen, to even Chipotle! I always try to make the most out of what seems to be a mundane day by asking myself: what can I do to make someone smile? School is not easy academically and emotionally, so I work everyday, along with my schoolwork, to make sure my friends happy by making jokes and being friendly. After school, I go to mentorship with Dr. Sablan, an orthopedist, where I shadow him and learn how the body works and how to treat different muscular pains. I come home by 6 PM to eat a wonderful home-cooked Korean meal by my mom. Afterwards comes the most dreaded part of the day: homework, which I grudgingly finish before I go to bed.