Method: Content Analysis
I. Introduction to the Content Analysis
a. Definition
i. What is a Content Analysis?
ii. Why is important?
II. Hypothesis
a. Establish the hypothesis – it’s credible a news report or written file that was developed in a rush? Yes or no.
III. Commentaries
a. Advantages – obtain the merit of being the first to present
b. Disadvantages – it’s feasible? Could affect the investigation?
IV. Example – video and interviews related to the recent murder of Prosecutor Ortiz Pagan
V. Methods and Procedures
VI. Findings – Was the objective of informing news fulfilled? Does it matters to viewers who initially has given incomplete information or uncorroborated?
VII. Conclusion
Noticel. (2016). Difunden primer vídeo relacionado al asesinato de fiscal. Retrieved from http://www.noticel.com/noticia/185714/difunden-primer-video-relacionado-al-asesinato-de-fiscal.html

Primera Hora. (2016). Hermano de fiscal asesinada cree que fue premeditado su crimen. Retrieved from http://www.primerahora.com/noticias/policia-tribunales/nota/hermanodefiscalasesinadacreequefuepremeditadosucrimen-1132583/
Janelle Caruana , (2013) “The effect of online news delivery platform on elements in the communication process: An experimental investigation”, Journal of Information, Communication and Ethics in Society, Vol. 11 Iss: 4, pp.233 – 244

DISCUSSION

Ebola at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital

• Watch the video titled “Full interview: Matt Lauer and Dallas nurse Briana Aguirre” (17 min 26 s), located athttp://www.today.com/video/today/56243958#56243958. Texas Presbyterian nurse Briana Aguirre who treated Ebola stricken colleagues announced publicly that her protective outfit had rips, as well as gaps in it – exposing body parts to the potentially deadly Ebola virus. She claimed that hospital administration ignored her concerns when she brought it to their attention, and she was given no Ebola training. Briana Aguirre has received praise from colleagues and the media for going public with this information, as well as harsh criticism for being a “whistleblower” from other colleagues and the media. In your opinion, did Briana Aguirre act ethically or unethically in going public with this information? Should she be fired from the Texas Presbyterian hospital? Support or challenge Briana Aguirre’s decision to go public with this information.

 

Assignment 3: Presentation: “Biggest Challenges Facing Organizations in the Next 20 Years”

Due Week 5 and worth 250 points

In this assignment, you will create a PowerPoint presentation that outlines what you believe will be the biggest challenges facing organizations in the next twenty (20) years.

Faculty Note: For students taking this course online, if there is a hardship for any student in being able to secure a microphone to complete this assignment, the student is allowed to use the notes section of PowerPoint to write a narrative of what they would say if actually presenting / narrating.

Write an eight (8) slide presentation in which you:

1. Provide a title slide (as indicated in the format requirements below) followed by a slide with an introduction to your presentation.
2. Presentation should include your choice of the five (5) challenges you believe organizations will face in the next twenty (20) years. Only include one (1) challenge and your explanation for choosing that challenge per slide for a total of five (5) slides.
3. Provide one (1) summary slide which addresses key points of your paper.
4. Narrate each slide, using a microphone, indicating what you would say if you were actually presenting in front of an audience.

Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:

• Format the PowerPoint presentation with headings on each slide and three to four (3-4) relevant graphics (photographs, graphs, clip art, etc.), ensuring that the presentation is visually appealing and readable from 18 feet away. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.
• Include a title slide containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date.

 

DISCUSSION

• You are now deciding on resources for a project team. You have a choice to staff a team of resources who will be dedicated (or allocated) 100% to the project, or staff a team of resources who will be dedicated (or allocated) part time to your project; however, they will dedicate 100% to the activities you assigned them. Using information from the readings, which set of resources will you choose? Or, will you choose a combination of both? Why?

 

DISCUSSION

Business and Government Relations”  Please respond to the following:

• Discuss the main reasons why a business should or should not be involved in political discussions or take a political stand. Use terms found in Chapter 9 to demonstrate your understanding of the material. You can submit your initial discussion post and responses in either written or video format (2-3 minutes or less).

Assignment 1: Discussion Assignment

The discussion assignment provides a forum to discuss the relevant topics for this week based on the course competencies covered. For this assignment, there are two parts. Make sure to answer all questions for Part 1 and Part 2 by Wednesday, February 3, 2016. Provide a detailed response to the topic questions in the Discussion Area. For this assignment, post your responses directly in the Discussion Area. Do not use attached documents.

To support your work, make sure to utilize your course and text readings. When asked, also utilize outside sources. As in all assignments, make sure to cite your sources in your work and provide references for those citations utilizing APA format.

Start reviewing and responding to the postings of your classmates as early in the week as possible. Respond to at least two of your classmates. Participate in the discussion by asking a question, providing a statement of clarification, providing a point of view with a rationale, challenging an aspect of the discussion, or indicating a relationship between one or more lines of reasoning in the discussion. Complete your participation for this assignment by Sunday, February 7, 2016.

Part 1:

In this era of concerns about health, diet, and obesity, there are a multitude of diets and weight loss products (including pills and surgery) on the market. The social norms seem to be shifting to a healthier lifestyle, with obesity being targeted as a major health problem. This leads individuals to seek help in weight loss and obesity. For example, in order to be successful after bariatric surgery (weight loss surgery), a person has to change his or her lifestyle—which often includes monitoring what he or she eats and when.

• Explain the difference between a person who has to maintain a strict regimen of healthy living and diet to not be obese and a person who is diagnosed with an eating disorder such as anorexia nervosa.
• Review the National Institute of Mental Health’s information regarding eating disorders. Describe the symptoms of anorexia nervosa and provide an explanation of the common factors relating to acquiring the disorder, how it is diagnosed, and its treatment.

Part 2:

Impulse control can be defined as an inability to control the desire for a substance or act. The lack of impulse control is seen as a factor related to substance abuse but it is not the only factor. Research information on addictions and the two types of addictions (substance addictions and behavioral addictions). Choose one substance addiction and one behavioral addiction and answer the following:

• Describe each addiction including potential genetic and environmental factors leading to the addiction. Describe the common symptoms, especially those that impact the person both physically and psychologically. Describe the common treatments for the disorders.
• Explain why a person with an addiction may have a difficult time accepting he or she has an addiction, seeking treatment, and abstaining from the addiction without relapsing.

Justify your answers with appropriate reasoning and research from your text and course readings. Comment on the postings of at least two peers, and provide an analysis of each peer’s postings while also suggesting specific additions or clarifications for improving the discussion question response.

PROJECT 4

1. The Big Bang Theory (now a law!!)
Before we start with the geologic history of Earth, we need to know how the Earth came into existence and for that matter how did this universe come into existence. So, do a little bit of research into the ‘Big Bang’ theory, now a law after what Hubble Space Telescope discovered a few years back, and then describe in your own words what this Theory states and how did our solar system come into existence!

You may describe each Stage of the BBT if you wish, as that way it is quite simpler to do so.

2. Geologic timescale on earth
In the reading assignment for this week, there are a number of Eras and Epochs described and before we go into details about each one of them and find out what kind of rocks or habitat existed at that time, let’s first check out the Geologic Timescale on Earth.

Describe the different time periods that are in the GT and describe each Era in a short paragraph along with details on its characteristics.

3. Describe one era of your choice!!
Which of the Eras that you described above is meaningful to you? Why? Explain, giving examples and description of the events, organisms and geology related to that Era.

4a. Visit the Virtual Caves website: http://www.goodearthgraphics.com/virtcave/. Briefly describe and provide an example of solution caves, sea caves, erosional caves, and lava tube caves.

4b. Find an online source and discuss dye tracing in relation to caves.

4c. Briefly describe the major earth science programs of the following governmental agencies:

1. USGS: www.usgs.gov
2. U.S. Department of Interior Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement (BOEMRE): http://www.boemre.gov/
3. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Coastal & Hydraulics Laboratory (CHL): http://chl.erdc.usace.army.mil/
5. Provide short definitions of the following terms:

The Carbon Cycle

Soil Horizon

Mechanical Weathering

Chemical Weathering

Spheroidal Weathering

Leaching, Creep

Landslide

Permafrost

Solifluction

Talus

The Hydrologic Cycle

Drainage Divide

Stream Piracy

Dendritic Drainage

Dissolved Load

Natural Levee

Suspended Load

Meander Cutoff

Ultimate Base Level

Write a 500 – 600 word paper on Criminal Justice Careers

 

What career opportunities are available for individuals who obtain a degree in criminal justice?

• What are the salary ranges of these careers?
• Are more opportunities available for those individuals who continue in their degrees with a Master’s degree in criminal justice?

Matthew Yachts, Inc.
Matthew Yachts, located in Montauk, Long Island, manufactured sailing yachts of all descriptions. The company had begun by building custom-designed yachts for a largely New York-based clientele. Custom-designed yachts still accounted for three-fifths of Matthew’s unit sales and four-fifths of its dollar sales and earnings. Over the years, as Matthew Yachts’ reputation for quality design and workmanship spread, sales broadened to cover all of the eastern seaboard.

In an effort to capitalize on this increased recognition and to secure a piece of the fastest growing market in sailing, Matthew Yachts began manufacturing a new standard, fixed-design craft. Matthew attacked only the high end of this market, as the boat measured 37 feet long. Nevertheless, even this end of the market was more price-sensitive and less conscious of performance than Matthew Yacht’s custom-design customers were.

All of the company’s yachts were manufactured at the Montauk plant and shared the same equipment and skilled labor force. Custom designs were given priority in scheduling, and the new boat was rotated into the schedule only when demand slackened. As sales of the fixed-design boat increased, however, scheduling the new boat on a regular basis became necessary.

Matthew Yachts were built basically from the bottom up. Fabricating hulls was the first step. Increasingly, fiberglass hulls were demanded for their speed and easy maintenance. Afterward came the below-deck woodworking, followed by the fiberglass and woodworking on the deck itself. The masts were turned and drilled separately. Masts and hull were then joined and the finish work completed.

Over the past year, as the fixed-design craft continued its steady increase in sales, costs and deliveries began to slide precipitously, especially on the fixed-design yachts. During this period, when push came to shove, construction of the fixed-design craft always yielded time and resources to the higher-profit-margin custom designs. As a result, many fixed-design yachts were strewn around the yard in various stages of construction. Moreover, space in the existing shipyard was becoming scarce, and a plant expansion of one sort or another appeared inevitable.

Discussion Question

1. Should Matthew Yachts, Inc. stay in the business of building standard, fixed-design yachts?

2. If Matthew Yachts does so, how should it continue?

Answer the following questions using examples and applications from the readings.  Justify your answers using economic concepts and ideas as they apply. Each response should be between 100-200 words.

Questions:

1. The demand for labor is said to be a “derived” demand.  What is the meaning of a derived demand? How does this concept help to determine the demand for labor?
2. What are some of the factors that determine the supply of labor in a market? What significant factors have changed the supply of labor over the last twenty years?
3.  How does a firm determine its prices and the quantity of labor required in the resource market during a specific period?
4.  Why do income inequalities exist?  How are income inequalities measured? How have income inequalities changed from 1980 to the present?
5. What is the role of the U.S. government, in terms of dealing with the problem of income inequalities?  What are the arguments, for and against, government involvement in this area?
6. Why do nations trade?  What is meant by the concept of “Comparative Advantage”?  Could a nation be better off economically, if it practiced an isolation policy?
7. The United States has had a significant trade imbalance for several years.  What are the problems associated with having a negative trade balance?  What can be done to correct the imbalance?
8. How are exchange rates determi

What are the top three qualities you would look for in a management team for a new business venture? Do these qualities match those typically sought by venture capitalists?

Consumer Health Choices and Behaviors

Manufacturing and pharmaceutical are two types of firms that aggressively market the over-the-counter or prescription drugs they produce. This Discussion will focus on the impact that marketing strategies have on consumers as well as address your own purchasing experiences.

To prepare for this Discussion, visit the Walden Library and find two articles about consumer buying habits that address the following questions.

• Do consumers base their product choices on price, brand, or research findings?
• Are there variations with respect to demographics?

Read a selection of your colleagues’ postings.

Post a comprehensive response to the following:

• How does health literacy influence consumer choices and behaviors?
• Provide an example of how marketing, the media, and your level of health literacy has impacted at least one choice you’ve made as a health consumer.
• Offer 2-3 examples of how health literacy of individuals and the nation may be improved.
• References to use
• Video: Laureate Education, Inc. (Executive Producer). (2009). Concepts of health promotion: Influences in consumerism. Baltimore, MD: Author.
• Article: Korp, P. (2006). Health on the Internet: Implications for Health Promotion. Health Education Research, 21(1), 78–8 6. Retrieved from http://her.oxfordjournals.org/content/21/1/78.full.pdf
• Article: U.S. Department of Health & Human Services (n.d.). Health Communication and Health Information Technology. Retrieved from http://www.healthypeople.gov/2020/topicsobjectives2020/overview.aspx?topicid=18
• Article: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. National Institute on Aging. (Sept. 2011). Understanding Risk: What do those headlines really mean? Retrieved from http://www.nia.nih.gov/health/publication/understanding-risk-what-do-those-headlines-really-mean
• Article: Wilkas, L. (2002). Scientific inquiry. Evaluating health web sites for research and practice. Journal for Specialists in Pediatric Nursing, 7(1), 38–41.
• Guide: United States Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (2006). Quick Guide to health literacy. Retrieved from http://www.health.gov/communication/literacy/quickguide/
• Text: Medical Library Association (n.d.). A user’s guide to finding and evaluating health information on the web. Retrieved from http://www.mlanet.org/resources/userguide.html
• Text: National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine. (n.d.). Evaluating Web-based health resources. Retrieved from http://nccam.nih.gov/health/webresources
• Text: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion. (2010). National Action Plan to Improve Health Literacy (pp. 1–10). Retrieved from http://www.health.gov/communication/hlactionplan/pdf/Health_Literacy_Action_Plan.pdf
• Article: Barth, J., & Greene, J. (2007). Encouraging healthy behaviors in Medicaid: Early lessons from Florida and Idaho. Policy & Issue Briefs. Retrieved from http://www.chcs.org/usr_doc/Encouraging_Healthy_Behaviors_in_Medicaid.pdf
• Article: Charnock, D., Shepperd, S., Needham, G., & Gann, R. (1999). DISCERN: An instrument for judging the quality of written consumer health information on treatment choices. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 53(2), 105–1 11.
• Article: Paulus, R., Davis, K., & Steele, G. (2008). Continuous innovation in health care: Implications of the Geisinger Experience. Health Affairs, 27(5), 1235–1245