CASE: MICHAEL T. SLAGER (Former North Charleston, S.C. Police Officer)
Note: Please review this case before beginning Assignment 2: Courts, Prosecution, and the Defense. This material is a compilation and summary of articles from the New York Times, CNN, and The Post and Courier in order to best present the facts of this case from a wide lens. Links to all primary sources are available within this case.
CHARLESTON, S.C. (NY Times)— More than two years after a North Charleston, S.C., police officer fired eight rounds toward the back of a fleeing and unarmed black motorist, the lawman whose burst of gunfire was recorded on video stood in a federal courtroom Tuesday to plead guilty to charges that he violated the slain man’s civil rights.
The plea by the officer, Michael T. Slager, assured a rare conviction of a law enforcement official for an on-duty killing, and it left him facing the possibility of life in prison for the April 2015 shooting of Walter L. Scott. Mr. Slager pleaded guilty to a single charge of willfully using excessive force to deprive Mr. Scott of his civil rights.
“We asked for justice,” Anthony Scott, one of Mr. Scott’s brothers, said. “We received justice.”
Mr. Slager said little during a brief hearing in United States District Court here, but he acknowledged the factual basis for the plea agreement, which said he had “used deadly force even though it was objectively unreasonable under the circumstances.”
Minutes later, as Mr. Slager was led from the courtroom in handcuffs, he passed crying members of Mr. Scott’s family. Across the courtroom’s center aisle, members of Mr. Slager’s family stood silently and tearfully.
The plea deal effectively resolves all of the pending charges against Mr. Slager, 35, who had also been indicted on a charge of murder in state court. While the arrangement offers certain benefits to Mr. Slager, such as a possible reduction under federal sentencing guidelines for acceptance of responsibility, the agreement is mostly a victory for people who have spent years raising alarms about police conduct in the nation.
Under the plea agreement, prosecutors will ask the court to apply sentencing guidelines that in effect would be for a second-degree murder charge. Notably, the deal expressly allows prosecutors to urge Judge David C. Norton, who did not immediately set a sentencing hearing, to order Mr. Slager to spend the rest of his life in prison.
“The Department of Justice will hold accountable any law enforcement officer who violates the civil rights of our citizens by using excessive force,” Attorney General Jeff Sessions said in a statement. “Such failures of duty not only harm the individual victims of these crimes; they harm our country, by eroding trust in law enforcement and undermining the good work of the vast majority of honorable and honest police officers.”
The agreement was greeted here with measured surprise. Although one of South Carolina’s top lawyers, Andrew J. Savage III, was in charge .
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MATTER OVER MIND ARTICLE
Section: CRIMINAL LAW
The Supreme Court Is Poised to Review the Insanity Defense, an Issue That Has Confounded Courts, Psychiatrists and Lawyers
THE 911 CALLS BEGAN COMING JUST BEFORE 5 A.M. on June 21, 2000, from a residential neighborhood in Flagstaff, Ariz. The callers complained of a pickup repeatedly circling the block, blasting music.
Flagstaff police officer Jeff Moritz was dispatched to the area. Moments later, the sounds of at least a half-dozen gunshots pierced the predawn air. By the time the next officers arrived, the neighbors had emerged from their homes and were standing around someone lying in the street.
It was Moritz. One of the shots had struck the young officer and father through the armhole of his bulletproof vest, severing his aorta. He probably died within 30 seconds of being hit.
By day's end, 17-year-old Eric Michael Clark was in custody. In a bench trial three years later, a judge rejected Clark's insanity defense, convicted him of first-degree murder and sent him to prison for 25 years to life.
No one disputes that Clark shot Moritz. And no one denies that Clark, now 23, suffered from paranoid schizophrenia at the time. Nor does anyone say Clark should walk the streets anytime in the foreseeable future. The only question is whether Clark belongs in prison or a mental health facility.
The U.S. Supreme Court may help to answer the question after it hears Clark's challenge to Arizona's stripped-down insanity defense, which Clark says denied him a fair trial by not taking full account of his mental illness.
The case, Clark v. Arizona, No. 05-5966, marks the first time the justices will directly consider whether defendants have a constitutional right to claim insanity as a defense. Oral arguments are scheduled for April 19.
For David and Terry Clark, their son's criminal conviction represented the ultimate contradiction in terms. With one breath, the judge acknowledged Eric Clark's mental illness. With the next, he declared Clark rational and guilty.
"The judge said he was psychotic and delusional, yet he knew what he was doing," David Clark says. "If you look up those words in the dictionary, they don't even go together in the same sentence."
Dan and Janis Moritz couldn't disagree more. They say Clark knew exactly what he was doing when he gunned down their son.
"I think a lot of people are mentally ill, but that certainly shouldn't excuse them of responsibility for what they choose to do," says Dan Moritz, a psychologist with experience in evaluating criminal defendants' competency to stand trial. "I believe child molesters are mentally ill. I believe rapists are mentally ill. They punish them severely, and they should."
MAKING ILLNESS REPLACE INTENT
WHEN THE JUSTICES TAKE UP CLARK'S CASE, THEY WILL delve into an area that not only provokes public outrage at occasional acquittals in high-profile cases but also has long confounded judges, lawyers and jurors.
In a double-edged due p ...
Title:
How FBI's Dylann Roof gun snafu hurts Obama's gun control agenda.
Authors:
Patrik Jonsson Staff writer
President Obama pushed Americans to call for stricter gun controls in the wake of the June 17 Charleston church massacre, complaining that the admitted killer, Dylann Roof, "had no trouble getting his hands on a gun."
What the President likely didn't know when he made those comments is this: It wasn't a lack of gun controls, but a bureaucratic failure, that led to Roof obtaining the gun legally, due, it turns out, on a senior FBI document examiner's unfamiliarity with South Carolina geography.
As such, details revealed Friday in the Dylann Roof case add to the complexity of the President's earlier call for a "greater sense of urgency" on gun safety, as FBI Director James Comey said Friday that the agency "felt sick" about its role in the Charleston tragedy – specifically, a failure to spot a drug charge that would have disqualified Roof from buying a gun on April 11.
According to Mr. Comey, a senior examiner started working on Roof's application on April 13, digging into the details of a drug arrest from earlier this year, which had the potential for disqualifying the application. But, being unfamiliar with South Carolina geography, she contacted the wrong law enforcement jurisdiction, which said it had no details on the arrest. A federal law allows the FBI three days to do a background check before either approving it or giving gun stores the discretion to sell the gun anyway.
By the end of that week, Roof had his murder weapon in hand.
For some commentators, the question now is whether a new focus on background checks and the FBI's admission that it flubbed Roof's application will affect public opinion over gun controls in an era where a recent government study found that the number of active shooter incidents rose from an average of 6.4 situations a year in 2007 to an average of 16.4 incidents in 2013.
The role of the government in preventing such tragedies is at the heart of the debate, which is deeply intertwined with America's long-running and complicated relationship with firearms ownership as guaranteed by the US Constitution.
At the same time, the "revving up of presidential campaigns for 2016 [have] increased the hostility" around the gun control debate, writes Aileen Graef for Sinclair Broadcast Group, which owns 162 TV stations in the US.
After a comprehensive gun safety bill failed to pass Congress following the Sandy Hook school massacre in late 2012, support for new gun controls has waned. Polls show only 47 percent of Americans now favoring stricter gun controls. There's other evidence that the US public has little appetite for new gun strictures. After all, 90 percent of NRA-backed candidates won their races in Election 2014.
And while the Charleston massacre forced South Carolina to reconsider its sanctioning of the Confederate battle flag, which Roof had posed with in photos and which t ...
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New York's Cuomo calls for government shutdown over gun control laws.
When it comes to guncontrol, wily centrist Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) of New York is emerging as one of the most outspokenly partisan politicians in the country.
As one of the few chief executives in the nation to successfully champion guncontrollegislation in the aftermath of a domestic mass shooting, Governor Cuomo is casting himself as a leader on the issue.
Last week, after the shooting at Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, Ore., which killed nine people and injured nine others, Cuomo called the growing commonplace of such shootings a "blatant failure of our political system" and "a blatant failure of the elected officials in this country."
"I'd love to see the Democrats stand up and say we're going to shut down the government or threaten to shut down the government if we don't get real guncontrollegislation," Cuomo told a local cable news station, repeating it later to CNN. "It should be that high a priority."
Such displays of emotion are relatively rare for the New York governor, who has for the most part governed as a powerful centrist manager of a state divided by upstate conservatives and New York City liberals. But even before the Oregon shooting, Cuomo renewed urgent calls for guncontrol during a fiery and politically charged eulogy for one of his staff attorneys, Carey Gabay, who was shot and killed by a stray bullet in Brooklyn.
His call to Democrats in Washington is not likely to prompt action.
"He has an important position and a microphone," says Jeanne Zaino, a professor of political science at Iona College in New Rochelle, N.Y. "So to that extent he has some pull, but it is limited. Effective guncontrol at the federal level will likely take a strong push from a coalition of Republicans and Democrats who are able to sell their policy as nonpartisan and as a public health issue."
But as a vocal critic of partisan gridlock in Washington, Cuomo has made an art of working with Republicans – who control the state Senate with the help of a caucus of six renegade Democrats.
Weeks after the mass shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Conn., in 2012, Cuomo secured support from the renegade caucus, and – citing poll numbers showing widespread support from New Yorkers – he succeeded in a vote on the NY SAFE Act. The new law expanded bans on assault weapons and magazines, bolstered background checks, required mental health officials to report patients with guns who may be dangerous, and instituted tougher penalties for gun crimes.
Cuomo told reporters Friday that he hoped New York's gun laws could be a "model for the nation."
"We passed the smartest guncontrollegislation in the nation in this state, and yes, it was hard, and yes, it cost me political capital, but it's probably one of the proudest things I've ever done because that law saves lives," he said.
New York has long been one of the strictest gun-control states in the nation, with laws requiring a license.
MATTER OVER MIND ARTICLESection CRIMINAL LAWThe Supreme Court.docxandreecapon
MATTER OVER MIND ARTICLE
Section: CRIMINAL LAW
The Supreme Court Is Poised to Review the Insanity Defense, an Issue That Has Confounded Courts, Psychiatrists and Lawyers
THE 911 CALLS BEGAN COMING JUST BEFORE 5 A.M. on June 21, 2000, from a residential neighborhood in Flagstaff, Ariz. The callers complained of a pickup repeatedly circling the block, blasting music.
Flagstaff police officer Jeff Moritz was dispatched to the area. Moments later, the sounds of at least a half-dozen gunshots pierced the predawn air. By the time the next officers arrived, the neighbors had emerged from their homes and were standing around someone lying in the street.
It was Moritz. One of the shots had struck the young officer and father through the armhole of his bulletproof vest, severing his aorta. He probably died within 30 seconds of being hit.
By day's end, 17-year-old Eric Michael Clark was in custody. In a bench trial three years later, a judge rejected Clark's insanity defense, convicted him of first-degree murder and sent him to prison for 25 years to life.
No one disputes that Clark shot Moritz. And no one denies that Clark, now 23, suffered from paranoid schizophrenia at the time. Nor does anyone say Clark should walk the streets anytime in the foreseeable future. The only question is whether Clark belongs in prison or a mental health facility.
The U.S. Supreme Court may help to answer the question after it hears Clark's challenge to Arizona's stripped-down insanity defense, which Clark says denied him a fair trial by not taking full account of his mental illness.
The case, Clark v. Arizona, No. 05-5966, marks the first time the justices will directly consider whether defendants have a constitutional right to claim insanity as a defense. Oral arguments are scheduled for April 19.
For David and Terry Clark, their son's criminal conviction represented the ultimate contradiction in terms. With one breath, the judge acknowledged Eric Clark's mental illness. With the next, he declared Clark rational and guilty.
"The judge said he was psychotic and delusional, yet he knew what he was doing," David Clark says. "If you look up those words in the dictionary, they don't even go together in the same sentence."
Dan and Janis Moritz couldn't disagree more. They say Clark knew exactly what he was doing when he gunned down their son.
"I think a lot of people are mentally ill, but that certainly shouldn't excuse them of responsibility for what they choose to do," says Dan Moritz, a psychologist with experience in evaluating criminal defendants' competency to stand trial. "I believe child molesters are mentally ill. I believe rapists are mentally ill. They punish them severely, and they should."
MAKING ILLNESS REPLACE INTENT
WHEN THE JUSTICES TAKE UP CLARK'S CASE, THEY WILL delve into an area that not only provokes public outrage at occasional acquittals in high-profile cases but also has long confounded judges, lawyers and jurors.
In a double-edged due p ...
Title:
How FBI's Dylann Roof gun snafu hurts Obama's gun control agenda.
Authors:
Patrik Jonsson Staff writer
President Obama pushed Americans to call for stricter gun controls in the wake of the June 17 Charleston church massacre, complaining that the admitted killer, Dylann Roof, "had no trouble getting his hands on a gun."
What the President likely didn't know when he made those comments is this: It wasn't a lack of gun controls, but a bureaucratic failure, that led to Roof obtaining the gun legally, due, it turns out, on a senior FBI document examiner's unfamiliarity with South Carolina geography.
As such, details revealed Friday in the Dylann Roof case add to the complexity of the President's earlier call for a "greater sense of urgency" on gun safety, as FBI Director James Comey said Friday that the agency "felt sick" about its role in the Charleston tragedy – specifically, a failure to spot a drug charge that would have disqualified Roof from buying a gun on April 11.
According to Mr. Comey, a senior examiner started working on Roof's application on April 13, digging into the details of a drug arrest from earlier this year, which had the potential for disqualifying the application. But, being unfamiliar with South Carolina geography, she contacted the wrong law enforcement jurisdiction, which said it had no details on the arrest. A federal law allows the FBI three days to do a background check before either approving it or giving gun stores the discretion to sell the gun anyway.
By the end of that week, Roof had his murder weapon in hand.
For some commentators, the question now is whether a new focus on background checks and the FBI's admission that it flubbed Roof's application will affect public opinion over gun controls in an era where a recent government study found that the number of active shooter incidents rose from an average of 6.4 situations a year in 2007 to an average of 16.4 incidents in 2013.
The role of the government in preventing such tragedies is at the heart of the debate, which is deeply intertwined with America's long-running and complicated relationship with firearms ownership as guaranteed by the US Constitution.
At the same time, the "revving up of presidential campaigns for 2016 [have] increased the hostility" around the gun control debate, writes Aileen Graef for Sinclair Broadcast Group, which owns 162 TV stations in the US.
After a comprehensive gun safety bill failed to pass Congress following the Sandy Hook school massacre in late 2012, support for new gun controls has waned. Polls show only 47 percent of Americans now favoring stricter gun controls. There's other evidence that the US public has little appetite for new gun strictures. After all, 90 percent of NRA-backed candidates won their races in Election 2014.
And while the Charleston massacre forced South Carolina to reconsider its sanctioning of the Confederate battle flag, which Roof had posed with in photos and which t ...
New Yorks Cuomo calls for government shutdown over gun control la.docxhenrymartin15260
New York's Cuomo calls for government shutdown over gun control laws.
When it comes to guncontrol, wily centrist Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) of New York is emerging as one of the most outspokenly partisan politicians in the country.
As one of the few chief executives in the nation to successfully champion guncontrollegislation in the aftermath of a domestic mass shooting, Governor Cuomo is casting himself as a leader on the issue.
Last week, after the shooting at Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, Ore., which killed nine people and injured nine others, Cuomo called the growing commonplace of such shootings a "blatant failure of our political system" and "a blatant failure of the elected officials in this country."
"I'd love to see the Democrats stand up and say we're going to shut down the government or threaten to shut down the government if we don't get real guncontrollegislation," Cuomo told a local cable news station, repeating it later to CNN. "It should be that high a priority."
Such displays of emotion are relatively rare for the New York governor, who has for the most part governed as a powerful centrist manager of a state divided by upstate conservatives and New York City liberals. But even before the Oregon shooting, Cuomo renewed urgent calls for guncontrol during a fiery and politically charged eulogy for one of his staff attorneys, Carey Gabay, who was shot and killed by a stray bullet in Brooklyn.
His call to Democrats in Washington is not likely to prompt action.
"He has an important position and a microphone," says Jeanne Zaino, a professor of political science at Iona College in New Rochelle, N.Y. "So to that extent he has some pull, but it is limited. Effective guncontrol at the federal level will likely take a strong push from a coalition of Republicans and Democrats who are able to sell their policy as nonpartisan and as a public health issue."
But as a vocal critic of partisan gridlock in Washington, Cuomo has made an art of working with Republicans – who control the state Senate with the help of a caucus of six renegade Democrats.
Weeks after the mass shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Conn., in 2012, Cuomo secured support from the renegade caucus, and – citing poll numbers showing widespread support from New Yorkers – he succeeded in a vote on the NY SAFE Act. The new law expanded bans on assault weapons and magazines, bolstered background checks, required mental health officials to report patients with guns who may be dangerous, and instituted tougher penalties for gun crimes.
Cuomo told reporters Friday that he hoped New York's gun laws could be a "model for the nation."
"We passed the smartest guncontrollegislation in the nation in this state, and yes, it was hard, and yes, it cost me political capital, but it's probably one of the proudest things I've ever done because that law saves lives," he said.
New York has long been one of the strictest gun-control states in the nation, with laws requiring a license.
A Survey of National Security Law seminar-Chicago Kent College of LawChicagoKent565
View an information brochure for a Seminar hosted by the Chicago-Kent Center for National Security and Human Rights Law. The full-day seminar discussed national security law from various perspectives, including the U.S. and legal architecture surrounding principles of self-defense, the laws of armed conflict, law enforcement approaches, intelligence collection, detention issues, war crimes tribunals, and cybersecurity.
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AGAINST THE DEATH PENALTY
Stephen B. Bright
Attorney Stephen B. Bright is a visiting lecturer at Yale Law School, and President of the
Southern Center for Human Rights. In the essay below, he argues that the death penalty today is
still as arbitrary as it was decades ago, and it should be abolished. Pursuing the death penalty is
based on the decision of individual prosecutors, and juries in white communities hand down
death penalty verdicts more than those in mixed communities. He argues that wrongful
convictions frequently occur and result from poor legal representation, mistaken identifications,
the unreliable testimony of informants who swap their testimony for lenient treatment, and police
and prosecutorial misconduct.” Further, according to Bright, the death penalty does not deter
since murderers are not the kind of people who rationally assess risks, and, even if they were,
they don’t have the right information about the death penalty to make a reasoned judgment.
. . . This is a most appropriate time to assess the costs and benefits of the death penalty. Thirty
years ago, in 1976, the Supreme Court allowed the resumption of capital punishment after
declaring it unconstitutional four years earlier in Furman v. Georgia. Laws passed in response to
Furman were supposed to correct the constitutional defects identified in 1972. However, 30 years
of experience has demonstrated that those laws have failed to do so.
The death penalty is still arbitrary. It\'s still discriminatory. It is still imposed almost
exclusively upon poor people represented by court-appointed lawyers. In many cases the
capabilities of the lawyer have more to do with whether the death penalty is imposed than the
crime. The system is still fallible in deciding both guilt and punishment. In addition, the death
penalty is costly and is not accomplishing anything. And it is beneath a society that has a
reverence for life and recognizes that no human being is beyond redemption.
Many supporters of capital punishment, after years of struggling to make the system
work, have had sober second thoughts about it. Justice Sandra Day O\'Connor, who leaves the
Supreme Court after 25 years of distinguished service, has observed that \"serious questions are
being raised about whether the death penalty is being fairly administered in this country\" and
that \"the system may well be allowing some innocent defendants to be executed.\" Justices
Lewis Powell and Harry Blackmun also voted to uphold death sentences as members of the
court, but eventually came to the conclusion, as Justice Blackmun put it, that \"the death penalty
experiment has failed.\'\"
The Birmingham News announced in November that after years of supporting the death penalty
it could no longer do so \"[b]ecause we have come to believe Alabama\'s capital punishment
system is broken. And because, first and foremost, this newspaper\'s editorial board is committed
to a culture of life.\" . . .
The death penalty is not imposed to .
Case Study 1 Applying Theory to PracticeSocial scientists hav.docxcowinhelen
Case Study 1: Applying Theory to Practice
Social scientists have proposed a number of theories to explain juvenile delinquency. Each has its own strengths and weaknesses. For this assignment, go to the following Website, located at http://listverse.com/2011/05/14/top-10-young-killers/ and select one of the juvenile case studies.
After reading the case, select one (1) of the psychological theories discussed in Chapter 4 of the text.
Write a two to three (2-3) page paper in which you:
1. Summarize three (3) key aspects of the juvenile case study that you selected.
2. Highlight at least three (3) factors that you believe are important for one to understand the origins of the juvenile’s delinquent behavior.
3. Apply at least two (2) concepts from the theory that you chose from the text that would help explain the juvenile’s behavior.
4. Identify one (1) appropriate strategy geared toward preventing delinquency that is consistent with the theory you chose.
5. Use at least three (3) quality references. Note: Wikipedia and other Websites do not qualify as academic resources.
Discussion-
"The Changing Family System"
Using what you’ve learned this week, respond to the following prompts in your post:
· Explain at least two (2) roles that different parenting styles play in shaping the overall behavior of children. Next, indicate the significant impacts that each role has in contributing to delinquent behavior among juveniles.
· Think about the following question: Should juvenile delinquents be removed from their home and parent(s) and placed in a foster home or group home if the child continues to commit criminal acts after repeated attempts at treatment and confinement? Based on this question, discuss your thoughts on this subject. Provide support for your response.
Discussion-
"Exploring Monopolies and Oligopolies"
Watch this video, Oligopolies and Monopolistic Competition, to help you prepare for this week’s discussion.
Reply to these prompts by using the company for which you currently work, a business with which your familiar, or a dream business you want to start:
· With your selected business in mind, determine if it is competitive, monopolistic competitive, an oligopoly, or pure monopoly. Explain how you drew your conclusion about its market structure.
· How does the business/firm in this industry determine the price it will charge for the products or services it sells?
Discussion-
"Considering Tradeoffs You Make Every Day"
Let's talk about two tradeoffs we face every day: how we spend our time and money.
We can only do two things with income: spend it or save it. Time is the ultimate resource. We can choose to spend time working to earn an income or we can do other things, broadly classified as leisure. Reply to these prompts to start your discussion:
· How does a change in interest rate affect your decision to spend or save? How would a change in the interest rate affect a firm's decision to invest or save?
· How might an increas.
Case Study - Option 3 BarbaraBarbara is a 22 year old woman who h.docxcowinhelen
Case Study - Option 3: Barbara
Barbara is a 22 year old woman who has recently graduated from college with a psychology degree. She is currently working as a waitress at a popular restaurant near campus, and says she has always planned to attend law school. Barbara was born in a New Orleans, Louisiana. Her mother is an African American who is an assistant manager at a grocery store. Her father is Caucasian and works at a department store. Barbara reports that she was a shy, unattractive child, but that in general her early childhood was "pretty happy." Barbara says that during elementary school, she was constantly harassed by classmates about being of mixed race. Still, she says that she felt very close to her family during this period. She now insists that "I am not black or white, I am me."
Barbara is sexually active and engages in sexual activity with different men at least 1 time a week. Barbara indicates that she does not need protection because she is on the pill. She says she is simply too young to settle down. During her junior year of high school, Barbara had her first serious boyfriend, Morris, who was a high school classmate. She describes the relationship as warm and supportive and they became sexually active during her senior year of high school. They broke up soon after the first sexual interaction. In college, Barbara has dated and she acknowledges some bisexual experimentation. Barbara says that she prefers heterosexual relationships, however.
Although Barbara appears to be a natural athlete, she leads a relatively sedentary lifestyle. She does not exercise regularly and indicates that it is just not enjoyable.
Barbara does not like her job at the restaurant, but seems unwilling to look for other employment. She says that she feels "very jittery" whenever she gets ready for work, and she uses any excuse to take days off. She also refuses to associate with fellow employees, and reports getting very anxious when she was given a surprise birthday party. Recently, she has lost interest in cleaning her house and seldom cooks for herself. She also attends less to her personal grooming.
Diagnosis – Social Anxiety Disorder/Minor Depression
DSM-5 – Diagnostic Criteria for Social Anxiety Disorder
1. Fear or anxiety specific to social settings, in which a person feels noticed, observed, or scrutinized.
2. Typically the individual will fear that they will display their anxiety and experience social rejection,
3. Social interaction will consistently provoke distress,
4. Social interactions are either avoided, or painfully and reluctantly endured,
5. The fear and anxiety will be grossly disproportionate to the actual situation,
6. The fear, anxiety or other distress around social situations will persist for six months or longer and
7. Cause personal distress and impairment of functioning in one or more domains, such as interpersonal or occupational functioning,
8. The fear or anxiety cannot be attributed to a medical disorder, s.
Case Study - Cyberterrorism—A New RealityWhen hackers claiming .docxcowinhelen
Case Study - Cyberterrorism—A New Reality:
When hackers claiming to support the Syrian regime of Bashar Al-Assad attacked and disabled the website of Al Jazeera, the Qatar-based satellite news channel, in September 2012, the act was another act of hacktivism, purporting to promote a specific political agenda over another. Hacktivism has become a very visible form of expressing dissent. Even though there have been numerous incidents reported by the media, the first case of hacktivism was documented in 1989 when a member of the Cult of the Dead Cow hacker collective named Omega coined the term in 1996. However, hacktivism is not the only form of cyber protest and conflict that has everyone from ICT professionals to governments scrambling for solutions. Individuals, enterprises, and governments alike rely in many instances almost completely on network computing technologies, including cloud computing. The international and ever-evolving nature of the Internet along with inadequate law enforcement and the anonymity the global architecture offers creates opportunities for hackers to attack vulnerable nodes for personal, financial, or political gain.
The Internet is also rapidly becoming the political and advocacy platform of choice, bringing with it both positive and negative consequences. Increasingly sophisticated off-the-shelf technologies and easy access to the Internet are significantly increasing incidents of cyberterrorism, netwars, and cyberwarfare. The following are a few examples.
• According to The Israel Electric Company, Israel is attacked 1,000 times a minute by cyberterrorists targeting the country’s infrastructure—water, electricity, communications, and other services.• The New York Times, quoting military officials, said there was a seventeen-fold increase in cyberattacks targeting the US critical infrastructure between 2009 and 2011.• The 2010 Data Breach Investigations Report has data recording more than 900 instances of computer hacking and other data breaches in the past seven years, resulting in some 900 million compromised records. In 2012, the same study listed 855 breaches, resulting in 174 million compromised records in 2011 alone, up from 4 million in 2010.• Another study of 49 breaches in 2011 reported that the average organizational cost of a data breach (including detection, internal response, notification, post notification cost) was $5.5 million. This number was down from $7.2 million in 2010.14 The Telegraph (London) reported that “India blamed a new ‘cyber-jihad’ by Pakistani militant groups for the exodus of thousands of people from India’s north-eastern minorities from its main southern cities in August after text messages warning them to flee went viral.”
There have been recorded instances of nations allegedly engaging in cyberwarfare. The Center for the Study of Technology and Society has identified five methods by which cyberwarfare can be used as a means of military action. These include defacing or di.
Case Study - APA paper with min 4 page content Review the Blai.docxcowinhelen
Case Study - APA paper with min 4 page content
Review the
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case on the capital structure by understanding the case well enough to help the CEO make informed analysis and decisions on the issues listed in the second paragraph.
I want you to, of course, show me that you understand the situation but then to add the
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Case Study - Global Mobile Corporation Damn it, .docxcowinhelen
Case Study - Global Mobile Corporation
“Damn it, he's done it again!”
Charlie Newburg had to get up and walk around his office, he was so frustrated. He had been
reviewing the most recent design, parts, and assembly specifications for Global Mobile's latest
smart phone (code named: Nonphixhun) that had been released for production the previous
Thursday. The files had just come back to Charlie's engineering services department with a
caustic note that began, “This one can't be produced, either…” It was the fourth time production
had returned the design.
Newburg, director of engineering for the Global Mobile Corporation, was normally a quiet
person. But the Nonphixhun project was stretching his patience; it was beginning to appear like
several other new products that had hit delays and problems in the transition from design to
production during the eight months Charlie had worked for Global Mobile. These problems were
nothing new at Global Mobile's Asian factory; Charlie's predecessor in the engineering job had
run afoul of them, too, and had finally been fired for protesting too vehemently about the other
departments. But the Nonphixhun phone should have been different. Charlie and the firm's
president, Hannah Hoover, had video-conferenced two months earlier (on July 3, 2006) with the
factory superintendent, Tyson Wang, to smooth the way for the new phone's design. He thought
back to the meeting …
• “Now, we all know there's a tight deadline on the Nonphixhun,” Hannah Hoover said, “and
Charlie's done well to ask us to talk about its introduction. I'm counting on both of you to find
any snags in the system, and to work together to get that first production run out by October
2. Can you do it?” “We can do it in production if we get a clean design two weeks from
now, as scheduled,” answered Tyson Wang, the factory manager. “Charlie and I have already
talked about that, of course. I've spoken with our circuit board and other parts suppliers and
scheduled assembly capacity, and we'll be ready. If the design goes over schedule, though, I'll
have to fill in with other runs, and it will cost us a bundle to break in for the Nonphixhun.
How does it look in engineering, Charlie?” “I've just reviewed the design for the second
time,” Charlie replied. “If Marianne Price can keep the salespeople out of our hair, and avoid
any more last minute changes, we've got a shot. I've pulled my technical support people off of
three other overdue jobs to get this one out. But, Tyson, that means we can't spring engineers
loose to confer with your production people on other manufacturing problems.” “Well
Charlie, most of those problems are caused by the engineers, and we need them to resolve the
difficulties. We've all agreed that production problems come from both of us bowing to sales
pressure, and putting equipment into production before the designs are really ready. That's
just wh.
Case Study #3Apple Suppliers & Labor PracticesWith its h.docxcowinhelen
Case Study #3
Apple Suppliers & Labor Practices
With its highly coveted line of consumer electronics, Apple has a cult following among loyal consumers. During the 2014 holiday season, 74.5 million iPhones were sold. Demand like this meant that Apple was in line to make over $52 billion in profits in 2015, the largest annual profit ever generated from a company’s operations. Despite its consistent financial performance year over year, Apple’s robust profit margin hides a more complicated set of business ethics. Similar to many products sold in the U.S., Apple does not manufacture most its goods domestically. Most of the component sourcing and factory production is done overseas in conditions that critics have argued are dangerous to workers and harmful to the environment.
For example, tin is a major component in Apple’s products and much of it is sourced in Indonesia. Although there are mines that source tin ethically, there are also many that do not. One study found workers—many of them children—working in unsafe conditions, digging tin out by hand in mines prone to landslides that could bury workers alive. About 70% of the tin used in electronic devices such as smartphones and tablets comes from these more dangerous, small-scale mines. An investigation by the BBC revealed how perilous these working conditions can be. In interviews with miners, a 12-yearold working at the bottom of a 70-foot cliff of sand said: “I worry about landslides. The earth slipping from up there to the bottom. It could happen.”
Apple defends its practices by saying it only has so much control over monitoring and regulating its component sources. The company justifies its sourcing practices by saying that it is a complex process, with tens of thousands of miners selling tin, many of them through middle-men. In a statement to the BBC, Apple said “the simplest course of action would be for Apple to unilaterally refuse any tin from Indonesian mines. That would be easy for us to do and would certainly shield us from criticism. But that would also be the lazy and cowardly path, since it would do nothing to improve the situation. We have chosen to stay engaged and attempt to drive changes on the ground.”
In an effort for greater transparency, Apple has released annual reports detailing their work with suppliers and labor practices. While more recent investigations have shown some improvements to suppliers’ working conditions, Apple continues to face criticism as consumer demand for iPhones and other products continues to grow.
Essay directions –
Students will have to identify and analyze the above ethical dilemma. Write a 750 – 1000 word, double-spaced paper, and APA style.
Students are expected to identify the key stakeholders, discussion of the implications of the ethical dilemma, and answer the case study questions. Each paper should have the following sections: • Introduction of the case• The ethical dilemma • Stakeholders • Questions • Conclusions • References .
CASE STUDY (Individual) Scotland In terms of its physical l.docxcowinhelen
CASE STUDY (Individual): Scotland
* In terms of its physical landscape, where is the region that is experiencing a devolutionary process located and what type of climate is prevalent? (use Figure 2.5 and 2.4 of the textbook).
* According to the sources you have consulted, do these physical/natural characteristics have played any role in the historical background for this devolutionary process? How?
* How do the people that inhabit the region you are studying speak about their relationship to the land and the environment? Do they express any ideas on biodiversity conservation?
* Do they say anything about their homeland? If the region you are studying has a website (official or not), what role do maps play on their web site/s?
* Is this region located close to or far from the center of power of the country (the national capital city)?
* Does this condition have any impact on the reasons why they would like to gain at-least more autonomy to make their own decisions?
* According to the source/s you have consulted, what are the main reason/s why this population would like to break-up from the country in which they live in?
Do this/these source/s mention any explanation/s based on cultural or ethnic characteristics? For example, speaking a different language? Which one? Professing a different religion? Which one? Economic disparities
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Case Study #2 T.D. enjoys caring for the children and young peop.docxcowinhelen
Case Study #2
T.D. enjoys caring for the children and young people in the schools where she works, but sometimes she is faced with tough situations such as suspected child abuse and neglect, teen pregnancy, and alcohol and drug use among teenagers. She works hard to ensure that the children in her schools receive the best care possible.
Question:
Several third graders reports having received no breakfast at home for more than a week. T.D. is exercising Advocacy for the students under her care. What type of actions she might be doing to exercise advocacy for the students?
Discuss this:
Moral distress is a frequent situation where health care providers should face. Please define and discuss a personal experience where you have faced Moral distress in your practice.
Discuss how health promotion relates to morality.
Discuss your insights about your own communication strengths and weaknesses. Identify situations in which it may be difficult for you to establish or terminate a therapeutic relationship.
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formatted and cited in current APA style with support from at least 2 academic sources.
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CASE STUDY #2 Chief Complaint I have pain in my belly”.docxcowinhelen
CASE STUDY #2
Chief Complaint:
“I have pain in my belly”
History of Present Illness (HPI):
A 25-year-old female presents to the emergency room (ER) with complaints of severe abdominal pain for 2 weeks . The pain is sharp and crampy It hurts if I run, sit down hard, or if I have sex
PMH:
Patient denies
Drug Hx:
Birth control
Allergies:
NKA
Subjective:
Nausea and vomiting, Last menstrual period 5 days ago, New sexual partner about 2 months ago, No condoms, he hates them No pain, blood or difficulty with urination
Objective Data:
PE:
B/P 138/90; temperature 99°F; (RR) 20; (HR) 110, regular; oxygen saturation (PO2) 96%; pain 5/10
General:
acute distress and severe pain
HEENT:
Atraumatic, normocephalic, PERRLA, EOMI, conjunctiva and sclera clear; nares patent, nasopharynx clear, good dentition. Piercing in her right nostril and lower lip.
Lungs:
CTA AP&L
Card:
S1S2 without rub or gallop
Abd:
INSPECTION: no masses or thrills noted; no discoloration and skin is warm to; no tattoos or piercings; abdomen is nondistended and round
• AUSCULTATION: bowel sounds (BS) are normal in all four quadrants, no bruits noted
• PALPATION: on palpation, abdomen is tender to touch in four quadrants; tenderness noted on light palpation, deep palpation reveals no masses, spleen and liver unremarkable
• PERCUSSION: tympany heard in all quadrants, no dullness noted in abdominal area
GU:
• EXTERNAL: mature hair distribution; no external lesions on labia
• INTROITUS: slight green-gray discharge, no lesions
• VAGINAL: normal rugae; moderate amount of green discharge on vaginal walls
• CERVIX: nulliparous os with small amount of purulent discharge from os with positive cervical motion tenderness (CMT)
• UTERUS: ante-flexed, normal size, shape, and position
• ADNEXA: bilateral tenderness with fullness; both ovaries without masses
• RECTAL: deferred
• VAGINAL DISCHARGE: green in color
Ext:
no cyanosis, clubbing or edema
Integument:
intact without lesions masses or rashes
Neuro:
No obvious deficits and CN grossly intact II-XII
Then answer the following questions:
What other subjective data would you obtain?
What other objective findings would you look for?
What diagnostic exams do you want to order?
Name 3 differential diagnoses based on this patient presenting symptoms?
Give rationales for your each differential diagnosis.
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Your initial post should be at least 500 words, formatted and cited in current APA style with support from at least 2 academic sources.
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Case Study #1Jennifer is a 29-year-old administrative assistan.docxcowinhelen
Case Study #1
Jennifer is a 29-year-old administrative assistant married to Antonio, an Italian engineer, whom Jennifer met four years earlier while on a business trip for her marketing company. The couple now lives in Nebraska, where Antonio works for the county's transportation department and Jennifer commutes an hour each way to her marketing office. They have been trying to start a family for over a year. Eight months ago, Jennifer miscarried in her second month of pregnancy. Antonio's parents love Jennifer and often ask her if she is expecting again, hoping to encourage her to focus on her next baby. Jennifer's mother passed away two years ago and her father's health is rapidly deteriorating. Jennifer faces the probability of placing her father in a skilled nursing care facility within the next few months, against his wishes.
At work, Jennifer runs a tight ship. She is organized and prepares lists to assure that everything is done according to schedule. Everyone counts on Jennifer and she takes pride in never letting people down.
Jennifer has visited her physician numerous times in the last six months, complaining of headaches, backaches, and indigestion. Jennifer insists that she is happy and is not feeling stressed, yet she finds herself making more mistakes at work, unable to keep up with housework, and feeling tired and overwhelmed; she has begun to question her effectiveness as an employee, wife, daughter, and potential mother. Her pains seem to be increasing, but her doctor cannot find a physical cause for her discomfort.
Case Study #2
Michael is a 40-year-old airline pilot who has recently begun to experience chest pains. The chest pains began when Michael signed his final divorce papers, ending his 15-year marriage. He fought for joint custody of his two children, ages 12 and 10, but although he wants to be with them more frequently, he only sees them every two weeks. This schedule is, in great part, a result of his employer's announcement that budget constraints would result in layoffs. Michael worries that without his job he will be unable to support his children and lose the new townhouse that he purchased. Michael's chest pains are becoming more frequent and he fears that he may be dying.
Review case studies 1 and 2.
Choose one case study.
Complete the following questions in 150 to 200 words each. Be as detailed as possible and use the information you have learned throughout this course.
• What are the causes of stress in Michael’s or Jennifer’s life? How is stress affecting Michael’s or Jennifer’s health?
• How are these stressors affecting Michael’s or Jennifer’s self-concept and self-esteem?
• How might Michael’s or Jennifer’s situation illustrate adjustment? How might this situation become an opportunity for personal growth?
• What defensive coping methods is Michael or Jennifer using? What active coping methods might be healthier for Michael or Jennifer to use? Explain why you would recom.
Case Study # 2 –Danny’s Unhappy DutyEmployee ProfilesCaro.docxcowinhelen
Case Study # 2 –Danny’s Unhappy Duty
Employee Profiles
:
Carol Brown, Danny Winthrop, Thomas Fletcher
Carol, the Department Secretary for Purchasing and General Stores, has been
working at St. Louis Memorial Hospital for sixteen years, four of which have
been for the present Manager, Dan Winthrop. Carol likes her Boss, who gives
his employees more leeway than most. Carol’s main interests are her work and
her home—traits also typical of the other people who work in the Department.
Carol feels she is part of a close, cooperative group of employees.
Dan, or Danny, as he likes to be called, arrived at St. Louis Memorial four years
ago as a replacement for a Department manager who had been at the Hospital
for a number of years. Danny’s predecessor, Bill Taylor, was very strict in
everything from insisting that employees take exactly one-half hour for lunch
breaks to not having a coffee pot in the Department. When Danny came on
board as a Department Manager, his management style was much less strict.
The result was that Danny’s employees were much happier, and began to meet
and exceed expectations in getting their work done. St. Louis Memorial’s
previous CEO was a good friend and frequently complimented Danny on his
efficient and effective staff. Now a new CEO, Thomas Fletcher, has been hired
by the Hospital’s Board of Directors. Things are about to change.
Thomas Fletcher, new CEO and a recent graduate from a superior school of
hospital management, has always believed in “doing things by the book”.
Thomas originally had wanted to become a doctor, but decided two years into
the process that it was going to take him too long, and that he would be better
off becoming an administrator. He likes the idea of being an administrator,
and wants to be a good one. He has decided to start out his career at St. Louis
Memorial, of the smaller hospitals in the St. Louis area, but hopes to progress to a
a much larger facility in about four years, once he develops a track record at
St. Louis Memorial.
The Challenge: Communication, Criticism and Discipline, Leadership, Motivation,
Rules and Policies
Danny knows his employees quite well. They are generally a happy, cohesive, and cooperative group. They joke around a lot among themselves, but get the work done more than satisfactorily. All of them seem to give a
gr.
Case Study – Multicultural ParadeRead the Case below, and answe.docxcowinhelen
Case Study – Multicultural Parade
Read the Case below, and answer the following questions:
(No references needed, 2 pages double space, label the answer without copying the question in the paper)
1. What images come to mind when you hear the term “costume”? In what ways might it be considered demeaning?
2. Often people conflate “culture,” “ethnicity,” “heritage,” “race,” and “nationality,” or use them interchangeably. How are these concepts different from one another? Is a “Multicultural Day” different than an “International Day”?
3. How is Ms. Morrison’s definition of “cultural clothing” different from her definition of “ethnic heritage”? Did her explanation clarify things for Keisha and Emily?
4. How might activities that require students to share part of their ethnic heritage alienate students or contribute to students’ and teachers’ existing stereotypes and biases?
5. Connect to 3 of the core themes:
(Equity in Education/ Theories of Learning, Culture, and Identity/ Teaching and Learning in a Multicultural Society/ Research and Educational Knowledge )
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Case Study:
In an effort to celebrate the growing racial and ethnic diversity at Eastern School, the school’s Diversity Committee decided to sponsor Multicultural Day. Numerous performers were hired for assemblies and presentations. During the day’s feature event, the “Culture Parade,” students were asked to showcase cultural clothing as they walked through the hallways. Teachers were encouraged by the committee to discuss clothing from countries outside the United States and to invite students who had such clothing to bring it to school for the parade.
Ms. Morrison was excited about Multicultural Day because many of her students had parents who were immigrants. She imagined the day as an opportunity for those students to teach others about their cultures.
A week before the event, Ms. Morrison brought a kilt to class and explained its significance to the students. “This represents my Scottish heritage,” she said, “and I am proud to show it to you today.” She then asked whether students had “special costumes” at home that represented their cultures. Several students raised their hands, which prompted Ms. Morrison to discuss the events planned for Multicultural Day, including the parade.
During dismissal the day before the parade Ms. Morrison announced, “Don’t forget to bring your costumes to class tomorrow!”
The next day, Ms. Morrison was pleased to see several Hmong and Liberian students came with bags of clothing. She saw that two other students, Emily and Keisha, brought clothing, so she inquired about what was in their bags. Emily, a white student excitedly pulled out her soccer uniform, and Keisha, an African American student, pulled jeans and her favorite sweatshirt out of her bag. Ms. Morrison told the two girls she appreciated the.
Case Study THE INVISIBLE SPONSOR1BackgroundSome execut.docxcowinhelen
Case Study : THE INVISIBLE SPONSOR1
Background
Some executives prefer to micromanage projects whereas other executives
are fearful of making a decision because, if they were to make the wrong
decision, it could impact their career. In this case study, the president of the company assigned one of the vice presidents to act as the project sponsor on a project designed to build tooling for a client. The sponsor, however, was reluctant to make any decisions.
Assigning the VP
Moreland Company was well-respected as a tooling design-and-build
company. Moreland was project-driven because all of its income came
from projects. Moreland was also reasonably mature in project management.
When the previous VP for engineering retired, Moreland hired an executive from a manufacturing company to replace him. The new VP for engineering, Al Zink, had excellent engineering knowledge about tooling but had worked for companies that were not project-driven. Al had very little knowledge about project management and had never functioned as a project sponsor. Because of Al’s lack of experience as a sponsor, the president decided that Al should “get his feet wet” as quickly as possible and assigned him as the project sponsor on a mediumsized project. The project manager on this project was Fred Cutler. Fred was an engineer with more than twenty years of experience in tooling design and manufacturing. Fred reported directly to Al Zink administratively.
Fred's Dilemma
Fred understood the situation; he would have to train Al Zink on how to
function as a project sponsor. This was a new experience for Fred because subordinates usually do not train senior personnel on how to do their job. Would Al Zink be receptive?
Fred explained the role of the sponsor and how there are certain project documents that require the signatures of both the project manager and the project sponsor. Everything seemed to be going well until Fred informed Al that the project sponsor is the person that the president eventually holds accountable for the success or failure of the project. Fred could tell that Al was
quite upset over this statement.
Al realized that the failure of a project where he was the sponsor could damage his reputation and career. Al was now uncomfortable about having to act as a sponsor but knew that he might eventually be assigned as a sponsor on other projects. Al also knew that this project was somewhat of a high risk. If Al could function as an invisible sponsor, he could avoid making any critical decisions.
In the first meeting between Fred and Al where Al was the sponsor, Al asked Fred for a copy of the schedule for the project. Fred responded: I’m working on the schedule right now. I cannot finish the schedule until you tell me whether you want me to lay out the schedule based upon best time, least cost, or least risk.
Al stated that he would think about it and get back to Fred as soon as possible.
During the middle of the next week, Fred and Al m.
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“Damn it, he's done it again!”
Charlie Newburg had to get up and walk around his office, he was so frustrated. He had been
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smart phone (code named: Nonphixhun) that had been released for production the previous
Thursday. The files had just come back to Charlie's engineering services department with a
caustic note that began, “This one can't be produced, either…” It was the fourth time production
had returned the design.
Newburg, director of engineering for the Global Mobile Corporation, was normally a quiet
person. But the Nonphixhun project was stretching his patience; it was beginning to appear like
several other new products that had hit delays and problems in the transition from design to
production during the eight months Charlie had worked for Global Mobile. These problems were
nothing new at Global Mobile's Asian factory; Charlie's predecessor in the engineering job had
run afoul of them, too, and had finally been fired for protesting too vehemently about the other
departments. But the Nonphixhun phone should have been different. Charlie and the firm's
president, Hannah Hoover, had video-conferenced two months earlier (on July 3, 2006) with the
factory superintendent, Tyson Wang, to smooth the way for the new phone's design. He thought
back to the meeting …
• “Now, we all know there's a tight deadline on the Nonphixhun,” Hannah Hoover said, “and
Charlie's done well to ask us to talk about its introduction. I'm counting on both of you to find
any snags in the system, and to work together to get that first production run out by October
2. Can you do it?” “We can do it in production if we get a clean design two weeks from
now, as scheduled,” answered Tyson Wang, the factory manager. “Charlie and I have already
talked about that, of course. I've spoken with our circuit board and other parts suppliers and
scheduled assembly capacity, and we'll be ready. If the design goes over schedule, though, I'll
have to fill in with other runs, and it will cost us a bundle to break in for the Nonphixhun.
How does it look in engineering, Charlie?” “I've just reviewed the design for the second
time,” Charlie replied. “If Marianne Price can keep the salespeople out of our hair, and avoid
any more last minute changes, we've got a shot. I've pulled my technical support people off of
three other overdue jobs to get this one out. But, Tyson, that means we can't spring engineers
loose to confer with your production people on other manufacturing problems.” “Well
Charlie, most of those problems are caused by the engineers, and we need them to resolve the
difficulties. We've all agreed that production problems come from both of us bowing to sales
pressure, and putting equipment into production before the designs are really ready. That's
just wh.
Case Study #3Apple Suppliers & Labor PracticesWith its h.docxcowinhelen
Case Study #3
Apple Suppliers & Labor Practices
With its highly coveted line of consumer electronics, Apple has a cult following among loyal consumers. During the 2014 holiday season, 74.5 million iPhones were sold. Demand like this meant that Apple was in line to make over $52 billion in profits in 2015, the largest annual profit ever generated from a company’s operations. Despite its consistent financial performance year over year, Apple’s robust profit margin hides a more complicated set of business ethics. Similar to many products sold in the U.S., Apple does not manufacture most its goods domestically. Most of the component sourcing and factory production is done overseas in conditions that critics have argued are dangerous to workers and harmful to the environment.
For example, tin is a major component in Apple’s products and much of it is sourced in Indonesia. Although there are mines that source tin ethically, there are also many that do not. One study found workers—many of them children—working in unsafe conditions, digging tin out by hand in mines prone to landslides that could bury workers alive. About 70% of the tin used in electronic devices such as smartphones and tablets comes from these more dangerous, small-scale mines. An investigation by the BBC revealed how perilous these working conditions can be. In interviews with miners, a 12-yearold working at the bottom of a 70-foot cliff of sand said: “I worry about landslides. The earth slipping from up there to the bottom. It could happen.”
Apple defends its practices by saying it only has so much control over monitoring and regulating its component sources. The company justifies its sourcing practices by saying that it is a complex process, with tens of thousands of miners selling tin, many of them through middle-men. In a statement to the BBC, Apple said “the simplest course of action would be for Apple to unilaterally refuse any tin from Indonesian mines. That would be easy for us to do and would certainly shield us from criticism. But that would also be the lazy and cowardly path, since it would do nothing to improve the situation. We have chosen to stay engaged and attempt to drive changes on the ground.”
In an effort for greater transparency, Apple has released annual reports detailing their work with suppliers and labor practices. While more recent investigations have shown some improvements to suppliers’ working conditions, Apple continues to face criticism as consumer demand for iPhones and other products continues to grow.
Essay directions –
Students will have to identify and analyze the above ethical dilemma. Write a 750 – 1000 word, double-spaced paper, and APA style.
Students are expected to identify the key stakeholders, discussion of the implications of the ethical dilemma, and answer the case study questions. Each paper should have the following sections: • Introduction of the case• The ethical dilemma • Stakeholders • Questions • Conclusions • References .
CASE STUDY (Individual) Scotland In terms of its physical l.docxcowinhelen
CASE STUDY (Individual): Scotland
* In terms of its physical landscape, where is the region that is experiencing a devolutionary process located and what type of climate is prevalent? (use Figure 2.5 and 2.4 of the textbook).
* According to the sources you have consulted, do these physical/natural characteristics have played any role in the historical background for this devolutionary process? How?
* How do the people that inhabit the region you are studying speak about their relationship to the land and the environment? Do they express any ideas on biodiversity conservation?
* Do they say anything about their homeland? If the region you are studying has a website (official or not), what role do maps play on their web site/s?
* Is this region located close to or far from the center of power of the country (the national capital city)?
* Does this condition have any impact on the reasons why they would like to gain at-least more autonomy to make their own decisions?
* According to the source/s you have consulted, what are the main reason/s why this population would like to break-up from the country in which they live in?
Do this/these source/s mention any explanation/s based on cultural or ethnic characteristics? For example, speaking a different language? Which one? Professing a different religion? Which one? Economic disparities
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Case Study #2 T.D. enjoys caring for the children and young peop.docxcowinhelen
Case Study #2
T.D. enjoys caring for the children and young people in the schools where she works, but sometimes she is faced with tough situations such as suspected child abuse and neglect, teen pregnancy, and alcohol and drug use among teenagers. She works hard to ensure that the children in her schools receive the best care possible.
Question:
Several third graders reports having received no breakfast at home for more than a week. T.D. is exercising Advocacy for the students under her care. What type of actions she might be doing to exercise advocacy for the students?
Discuss this:
Moral distress is a frequent situation where health care providers should face. Please define and discuss a personal experience where you have faced Moral distress in your practice.
Discuss how health promotion relates to morality.
Discuss your insights about your own communication strengths and weaknesses. Identify situations in which it may be difficult for you to establish or terminate a therapeutic relationship.
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formatted and cited in current APA style with support from at least 2 academic sources.
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CASE STUDY #2 Chief Complaint I have pain in my belly”.docxcowinhelen
CASE STUDY #2
Chief Complaint:
“I have pain in my belly”
History of Present Illness (HPI):
A 25-year-old female presents to the emergency room (ER) with complaints of severe abdominal pain for 2 weeks . The pain is sharp and crampy It hurts if I run, sit down hard, or if I have sex
PMH:
Patient denies
Drug Hx:
Birth control
Allergies:
NKA
Subjective:
Nausea and vomiting, Last menstrual period 5 days ago, New sexual partner about 2 months ago, No condoms, he hates them No pain, blood or difficulty with urination
Objective Data:
PE:
B/P 138/90; temperature 99°F; (RR) 20; (HR) 110, regular; oxygen saturation (PO2) 96%; pain 5/10
General:
acute distress and severe pain
HEENT:
Atraumatic, normocephalic, PERRLA, EOMI, conjunctiva and sclera clear; nares patent, nasopharynx clear, good dentition. Piercing in her right nostril and lower lip.
Lungs:
CTA AP&L
Card:
S1S2 without rub or gallop
Abd:
INSPECTION: no masses or thrills noted; no discoloration and skin is warm to; no tattoos or piercings; abdomen is nondistended and round
• AUSCULTATION: bowel sounds (BS) are normal in all four quadrants, no bruits noted
• PALPATION: on palpation, abdomen is tender to touch in four quadrants; tenderness noted on light palpation, deep palpation reveals no masses, spleen and liver unremarkable
• PERCUSSION: tympany heard in all quadrants, no dullness noted in abdominal area
GU:
• EXTERNAL: mature hair distribution; no external lesions on labia
• INTROITUS: slight green-gray discharge, no lesions
• VAGINAL: normal rugae; moderate amount of green discharge on vaginal walls
• CERVIX: nulliparous os with small amount of purulent discharge from os with positive cervical motion tenderness (CMT)
• UTERUS: ante-flexed, normal size, shape, and position
• ADNEXA: bilateral tenderness with fullness; both ovaries without masses
• RECTAL: deferred
• VAGINAL DISCHARGE: green in color
Ext:
no cyanosis, clubbing or edema
Integument:
intact without lesions masses or rashes
Neuro:
No obvious deficits and CN grossly intact II-XII
Then answer the following questions:
What other subjective data would you obtain?
What other objective findings would you look for?
What diagnostic exams do you want to order?
Name 3 differential diagnoses based on this patient presenting symptoms?
Give rationales for your each differential diagnosis.
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Your initial post should be at least 500 words, formatted and cited in current APA style with support from at least 2 academic sources.
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Case Study #1Jennifer is a 29-year-old administrative assistan.docxcowinhelen
Case Study #1
Jennifer is a 29-year-old administrative assistant married to Antonio, an Italian engineer, whom Jennifer met four years earlier while on a business trip for her marketing company. The couple now lives in Nebraska, where Antonio works for the county's transportation department and Jennifer commutes an hour each way to her marketing office. They have been trying to start a family for over a year. Eight months ago, Jennifer miscarried in her second month of pregnancy. Antonio's parents love Jennifer and often ask her if she is expecting again, hoping to encourage her to focus on her next baby. Jennifer's mother passed away two years ago and her father's health is rapidly deteriorating. Jennifer faces the probability of placing her father in a skilled nursing care facility within the next few months, against his wishes.
At work, Jennifer runs a tight ship. She is organized and prepares lists to assure that everything is done according to schedule. Everyone counts on Jennifer and she takes pride in never letting people down.
Jennifer has visited her physician numerous times in the last six months, complaining of headaches, backaches, and indigestion. Jennifer insists that she is happy and is not feeling stressed, yet she finds herself making more mistakes at work, unable to keep up with housework, and feeling tired and overwhelmed; she has begun to question her effectiveness as an employee, wife, daughter, and potential mother. Her pains seem to be increasing, but her doctor cannot find a physical cause for her discomfort.
Case Study #2
Michael is a 40-year-old airline pilot who has recently begun to experience chest pains. The chest pains began when Michael signed his final divorce papers, ending his 15-year marriage. He fought for joint custody of his two children, ages 12 and 10, but although he wants to be with them more frequently, he only sees them every two weeks. This schedule is, in great part, a result of his employer's announcement that budget constraints would result in layoffs. Michael worries that without his job he will be unable to support his children and lose the new townhouse that he purchased. Michael's chest pains are becoming more frequent and he fears that he may be dying.
Review case studies 1 and 2.
Choose one case study.
Complete the following questions in 150 to 200 words each. Be as detailed as possible and use the information you have learned throughout this course.
• What are the causes of stress in Michael’s or Jennifer’s life? How is stress affecting Michael’s or Jennifer’s health?
• How are these stressors affecting Michael’s or Jennifer’s self-concept and self-esteem?
• How might Michael’s or Jennifer’s situation illustrate adjustment? How might this situation become an opportunity for personal growth?
• What defensive coping methods is Michael or Jennifer using? What active coping methods might be healthier for Michael or Jennifer to use? Explain why you would recom.
Case Study # 2 –Danny’s Unhappy DutyEmployee ProfilesCaro.docxcowinhelen
Case Study # 2 –Danny’s Unhappy Duty
Employee Profiles
:
Carol Brown, Danny Winthrop, Thomas Fletcher
Carol, the Department Secretary for Purchasing and General Stores, has been
working at St. Louis Memorial Hospital for sixteen years, four of which have
been for the present Manager, Dan Winthrop. Carol likes her Boss, who gives
his employees more leeway than most. Carol’s main interests are her work and
her home—traits also typical of the other people who work in the Department.
Carol feels she is part of a close, cooperative group of employees.
Dan, or Danny, as he likes to be called, arrived at St. Louis Memorial four years
ago as a replacement for a Department manager who had been at the Hospital
for a number of years. Danny’s predecessor, Bill Taylor, was very strict in
everything from insisting that employees take exactly one-half hour for lunch
breaks to not having a coffee pot in the Department. When Danny came on
board as a Department Manager, his management style was much less strict.
The result was that Danny’s employees were much happier, and began to meet
and exceed expectations in getting their work done. St. Louis Memorial’s
previous CEO was a good friend and frequently complimented Danny on his
efficient and effective staff. Now a new CEO, Thomas Fletcher, has been hired
by the Hospital’s Board of Directors. Things are about to change.
Thomas Fletcher, new CEO and a recent graduate from a superior school of
hospital management, has always believed in “doing things by the book”.
Thomas originally had wanted to become a doctor, but decided two years into
the process that it was going to take him too long, and that he would be better
off becoming an administrator. He likes the idea of being an administrator,
and wants to be a good one. He has decided to start out his career at St. Louis
Memorial, of the smaller hospitals in the St. Louis area, but hopes to progress to a
a much larger facility in about four years, once he develops a track record at
St. Louis Memorial.
The Challenge: Communication, Criticism and Discipline, Leadership, Motivation,
Rules and Policies
Danny knows his employees quite well. They are generally a happy, cohesive, and cooperative group. They joke around a lot among themselves, but get the work done more than satisfactorily. All of them seem to give a
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Case Study – Multicultural ParadeRead the Case below, and answe.docxcowinhelen
Case Study – Multicultural Parade
Read the Case below, and answer the following questions:
(No references needed, 2 pages double space, label the answer without copying the question in the paper)
1. What images come to mind when you hear the term “costume”? In what ways might it be considered demeaning?
2. Often people conflate “culture,” “ethnicity,” “heritage,” “race,” and “nationality,” or use them interchangeably. How are these concepts different from one another? Is a “Multicultural Day” different than an “International Day”?
3. How is Ms. Morrison’s definition of “cultural clothing” different from her definition of “ethnic heritage”? Did her explanation clarify things for Keisha and Emily?
4. How might activities that require students to share part of their ethnic heritage alienate students or contribute to students’ and teachers’ existing stereotypes and biases?
5. Connect to 3 of the core themes:
(Equity in Education/ Theories of Learning, Culture, and Identity/ Teaching and Learning in a Multicultural Society/ Research and Educational Knowledge )
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Case Study:
In an effort to celebrate the growing racial and ethnic diversity at Eastern School, the school’s Diversity Committee decided to sponsor Multicultural Day. Numerous performers were hired for assemblies and presentations. During the day’s feature event, the “Culture Parade,” students were asked to showcase cultural clothing as they walked through the hallways. Teachers were encouraged by the committee to discuss clothing from countries outside the United States and to invite students who had such clothing to bring it to school for the parade.
Ms. Morrison was excited about Multicultural Day because many of her students had parents who were immigrants. She imagined the day as an opportunity for those students to teach others about their cultures.
A week before the event, Ms. Morrison brought a kilt to class and explained its significance to the students. “This represents my Scottish heritage,” she said, “and I am proud to show it to you today.” She then asked whether students had “special costumes” at home that represented their cultures. Several students raised their hands, which prompted Ms. Morrison to discuss the events planned for Multicultural Day, including the parade.
During dismissal the day before the parade Ms. Morrison announced, “Don’t forget to bring your costumes to class tomorrow!”
The next day, Ms. Morrison was pleased to see several Hmong and Liberian students came with bags of clothing. She saw that two other students, Emily and Keisha, brought clothing, so she inquired about what was in their bags. Emily, a white student excitedly pulled out her soccer uniform, and Keisha, an African American student, pulled jeans and her favorite sweatshirt out of her bag. Ms. Morrison told the two girls she appreciated the.
Case Study THE INVISIBLE SPONSOR1BackgroundSome execut.docxcowinhelen
Case Study : THE INVISIBLE SPONSOR1
Background
Some executives prefer to micromanage projects whereas other executives
are fearful of making a decision because, if they were to make the wrong
decision, it could impact their career. In this case study, the president of the company assigned one of the vice presidents to act as the project sponsor on a project designed to build tooling for a client. The sponsor, however, was reluctant to make any decisions.
Assigning the VP
Moreland Company was well-respected as a tooling design-and-build
company. Moreland was project-driven because all of its income came
from projects. Moreland was also reasonably mature in project management.
When the previous VP for engineering retired, Moreland hired an executive from a manufacturing company to replace him. The new VP for engineering, Al Zink, had excellent engineering knowledge about tooling but had worked for companies that were not project-driven. Al had very little knowledge about project management and had never functioned as a project sponsor. Because of Al’s lack of experience as a sponsor, the president decided that Al should “get his feet wet” as quickly as possible and assigned him as the project sponsor on a mediumsized project. The project manager on this project was Fred Cutler. Fred was an engineer with more than twenty years of experience in tooling design and manufacturing. Fred reported directly to Al Zink administratively.
Fred's Dilemma
Fred understood the situation; he would have to train Al Zink on how to
function as a project sponsor. This was a new experience for Fred because subordinates usually do not train senior personnel on how to do their job. Would Al Zink be receptive?
Fred explained the role of the sponsor and how there are certain project documents that require the signatures of both the project manager and the project sponsor. Everything seemed to be going well until Fred informed Al that the project sponsor is the person that the president eventually holds accountable for the success or failure of the project. Fred could tell that Al was
quite upset over this statement.
Al realized that the failure of a project where he was the sponsor could damage his reputation and career. Al was now uncomfortable about having to act as a sponsor but knew that he might eventually be assigned as a sponsor on other projects. Al also knew that this project was somewhat of a high risk. If Al could function as an invisible sponsor, he could avoid making any critical decisions.
In the first meeting between Fred and Al where Al was the sponsor, Al asked Fred for a copy of the schedule for the project. Fred responded: I’m working on the schedule right now. I cannot finish the schedule until you tell me whether you want me to lay out the schedule based upon best time, least cost, or least risk.
Al stated that he would think about it and get back to Fred as soon as possible.
During the middle of the next week, Fred and Al m.
CASE STUDY Experiential training encourages changes in work beha.docxcowinhelen
CASE STUDY: Experiential training encourages changes in work behavior and growth in one’s abilities, which is accomplished through a multitude of methods. Experiential training has proven to be cost-effective while motivating employees as well as improving self-awareness, personal accountability, teamwork skills, and communication skills (Ritchie, 2011). Additionally, the training methods provide trainees with direct experience, the opportunity to reflect on that experience, and share models to help trainees to deduce using both present and past experience, while accommodating learning styles and strengths (Ritchie, 2011). Valkanos and Fragoulis identify several reasons why experiential training provides value:
1. Ongoing advances in technology requiring changes in knowledge, skills, and abilities
2. Divergence between theory and practice
3. Mergers and acquisitions of enterprises which tend to bring new jobs, organizational culture, and work content
4. Constant environment of change, from working conditions to processes and procedures relating to organizational issues, quality, and new products or services, and requiring new competencies, duties, or work content (Valkanos & Fragoulis, 2007, p. 22).
Method
Description
On-the-job Training
Receives instructions on the functions of their job in their assigned workplace.
Simulators
Teaches employees on how to operate equipment in a given context
Role Playing
Developing interpersonal and business skills, such as decision-making, communication, conflict resolution, and solving complex problems.
Case Study
Develops critical thinking skills to include analytical, higher-level skills, and exploring and resolving complex problems.
Games
Develops general business and organizational principles addressing application in a variety of situations.
Behavior Modeling
Used when learning goals are a rule and inflexible procedures. Provides skills and practice to modify and model behavior.
In-basket Techniques
A variety of items placed in an envelope that reflects what might be found in an inbox. This activity is used to assist trainees in developing and applying their strategic and operational skills.
(Blanchard & Thacker, 2013, pp. 222-223)
References:
· Blanchard, P. N., & Thacker, J. W. (2013). Effective training: Systems, strategies, and practices (5th ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Education, Inc.
· Valkanos, E., & Fragoulis, I. (2007). Experiential learning – its place in in‐house education and training. Development and Learning in Organizations: An International Journal, 21(5), 21-23. doi:10.1108/14777280710779454
Discussion Question--Choose one perspective in which to respond.
Non-HR Perspective: Your department is not meeting performance expectations. What steps do you take to resolve the issue? Is training a possible solution; if so, which of the above training methods would be the most effective in addressing the issue? Would you, at any point, involve HR--if so, at what point and why?.
Case Study Hereditary AngioedemaAll responses must be in your .docxcowinhelen
Case Study: Hereditary Angioedema
All responses must be in your own words. Answers that have been copied and pasted will not receive credit.
1. Translate “angioedema”. [Note: I am not looking for a description of the disorder. Rather, I would like you to translate the medical term itself.]
2. The complement system is described as a ‘cascade system’. How does the system fit into this description of being a cascade? [Suggestion: Google the definition of cascade, then think about the complement system in light of the definition]
3. Is complement involved in the innate, or the adaptive immune system, or both? Please explain you answer.
4. What role does C1INH play in the complement system? Why is it so important?
5. What was the physiologic cause of Richard’s abdominal pain?
6. How can one distinguish the swelling of HAE from the swelling of allergic angioedema?
7. What is bradykinin’s role in HA?
8. Do you think Richard’s infancy colic was related to his HA? No need to research this. Just use your intuition. Explain your thinking.
9. What is typically used to treat attacks of HAE?
10. Swelling in the extremities is not dangerous. What other areas of the body are subject to swelling? What is the most dangerous location for swelling to occur and why is it the most dangerous?
2018
BUS 308 Week 2 Lecture 1
Examining Differences - overview
Expected Outcomes
After reading this lecture, the student should be familiar with:
1. The importance of random sampling.
2. The meaning of statistical significance.
3. The basic approach to determining statistical significance.
4. The meaning of the null and alternate hypothesis statements.
5. The hypothesis testing process.
6. The purpose of the F-test and the T-test.
Overview
Last week we collected clues and evidence to help us answer our case question about
males and females getting equal pay for equal work. As we looked at the clues presented by the
salary and comp-ratio measures of pay, things got a bit confusing with results that did not see to
be consistent. We found, among other things, that the male and female compa-ratios were fairly
close together with the female mean being slightly larger. The salary analysis showed a different
view; here we noticed that the averages were apparently quite different with the males, on
average, earning more. Contradictory findings such as this are not all that uncommon when
examining data in the “real world.”
One issue that we could not fully address last week was how meaningful were the
differences? That is, would a different sample have results that might be completely different, or
can we be fairly sure that the observed differences are real and show up in the population as
well? This issue, often referred to as sampling error, deals with the fact that random samples
taken from a population will generally be a bit different than the actual population parameters,
but will be “close” enough to the actual.
case studieson Gentrification and Displacement in the Sa.docxcowinhelen
case studies
on Gentrification and Displacement
in the San Francisco Bay Area
Authors:
Miriam Zuk and Karen Chapple
Chapter 3: Nicole Montojo
Chapter 4: Sydney Cespedes, Mitchell Crispell, Christina Blackston, Jonathan Plowman, and
Edward Graves
Chapter 5: Logan Rockefeller Harris, Mitchell Crispell, Fern Uennatornwaranggoon, and Hannah Clark
Chapter 6: Nicole Montojo and Beki McElvain
Chapter 7: Celina Chan, Viviana Lopez, Sydney Céspedes, and Nicole Montojo
Chapter 8: Alexander Kowalski, Julia Ehrman, Mitchell Crispell and Fern Uennatornwaranggoon
Chapter 9: Mitchell Crispell
Chapter 10: Logan Rockefeller Harris and Sydney Cespedes
Chapter 11: Mitchell Crispell
Partner Organizations:
Causa Justa :: Just Cause, Chinatown Community Development Center, Marin Grassroots, Monument
Impact, People Organizing to Demand Environmental & Economic Rights (PODER), San Francisco
Organizing Project / Peninsula Interfaith Action , Working Partnerships USA
Acknowledgements:
Research support was provided by Maura Baldiga, Julian Collins, Mitchell Crispell, Julia Ehrman, Alex
Kowalski, Jenn Liu, Beki McElvain, Carlos Recarte, Maira Sanchez, Mar Velez, David Von Stroh, and
Teo Wickland. Report layout and design was done by Somaya Abdelgany.
Additional advisory support was provided by Carlos Romero. This case study was funded in part by
the Regional Prosperity Plan1 of the Metropolitan Transportation Commission as part of the “Regional
Early Warning System for Displacement” project and from the California Air Resources Board2 as part
of the project “Developing a New Methodology for Analyzing Potential Displacement.”
The Center for Community Innovation (CCI) at UC-Berkeley nurtures effective solutions that expand
economic opportunity, diversify housing options, and strengthen connection to place. The Center
builds the capacity of nonprofits and government by convening practitioner leaders, providing techni-
cal assistance and student interns, interpreting academic research, and developing new research out
of practitioner needs.
communityinnovation.berkeley.edu
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1 The work that provided the basis for this publication was supported by funding under an award with the U.S. Department of Hous-
ing and Urban Development. The substance and findings of the work are dedicated to the public. The author and publisher are solely
responsible for the accuracy of the statements and interpretations contained in this publication. Such interpretations do not neces-
sarily reflect the views of the Government.
2 The statements and conclusions in this report are those of the authors and not necessarily those of the California Air Resources
Board. The mention of commercial products, their source, or their u.
Case Studt on KFC Introduction1) Identify the type of .docxcowinhelen
Case Studt on KFC
Introduction
1) Identify the type of business organization and strategies
2) Key players
Body
1. Opportunities
2. Threats
Closing/Conclusion
1. Make recommendations
2. Offer a plan for implementation
.
Case Study Crocs Revolutionizing an Industry’s Supply Chain .docxcowinhelen
Case Study Crocs: Revolutionizing an Industry’s Supply Chain Model for
Competitive Advantage
If the products sell extremely well, we will
build more in season, and will be back on the
shelves in a few weeks. And we’ll build even
more, and even more, and even more, in that
same season. We’re not going to wait with a
hot new product until next year, when hope-
fully the same trend is alive.
—Ronald Snyder, CEO of Crocs, Inc.1
On May 3, 2007, Crocs, Inc. released its results for the
first quarter of the year. The footwear company,
which had sold its first shoes in 2003, reported reve-
nues of $142 million for the quarter, more than three
times its sales for the first quarter of 2006. Net in-
come, at $0.61 per share was more than 17 percent
of sales, nearly four times higher than the previous
year.2 These results far exceeded market expecta-
tions, which had been for earnings of $0.49 per share
on $114 million of revenue.3 As part of the earnings
release, the company announced a two-for-one stock
split. Immediately after the announcement, the stock
price jumped 15 percent.
The growth and profitability of Crocs, which made
funky, brightly colored shoes using an extremely com-
fortable plastic material, had been astounding. Much
of this growth had been made possible by a highly
flexible supply chain which enabled the company to
build additional product to fulfill new orders quickly
within the selling season, allowing it to respond to un-
expectedly high demand—a capability that was previ-
ously unheard of in the footwear industry. This ability
to fulfill the needs of retailers also made the company
a very popular supplier to shoe sellers.
This success also raised questions about how
the company should grow in the future. Should it
vertically integrate or grow through product line
extension? Should it grow organically or through ac-
quisition? Would potential growth paths exploit
Crocs’ core competencies or defocus them?
CROCS, INC.
In 2002, three friends from Boulder, Colorado went
sailing in the Caribbean. One brought a pair of foam
clog shoes that he had bought from a company in
Canada. The clogs were made from a special mate-
rial that did not slip on wet boat decks, was easy
to wash, prevented odor, and was extremely com-
fortable. The three, Lyndon “Duke” Hanson, Scott
Seamans, and George Boedecker, decided to start a
business selling these Canadian shoes to sailing en-
thusiasts out of a leased warehouse in Florida, as
Hanson said, “so we could work when we went on
sailing trips there.”4 The founders wanted to name
the shoes something that captured the amphibious
nature of the product. Since “Alligator” had already
been taken, they chose to name the shoes “Crocs.”
The shoes were an immediate success, and word
of mouth expanded the customer base to a wide
range of people who spent much of their days stand-
ing, such as doctors and gardeners. In October 2003,
as the business began to grow, th.
Case Studies Student must complete 5 case studies as instructed.docxcowinhelen
Case Studies: Student must
complete 5 case studies
as instructed by course
materials. Fill out form below for 5 different people (imaginary is okay).
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Case Studies in Telehealth AdoptionThe mission of The Comm.docxcowinhelen
Case Studies in Telehealth Adoption
The mission of The Commonwealth
Fund is to promote a high performance
health care system. The Fund carries
out this mandate by supporting
independent research on health care
issues and making grants to improve
health care practice and policy. Support
for this research was provided by
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The Veterans Health Administration:
Taking Home Telehealth Services to
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Andrew Broderick
ABSTRACT: Since the 1990s, the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) has used infor-
mation and communications technologies to provide high-quality, coordinated, and com-
prehensive primary and specialist care services to its veteran population. Within the VHA,
the Office of Telehealth Services offers veterans a program called Care Coordination/
Home Telehealth (CCHT) to provide routine noninstitutional care and targeted care man-
agement and case management services to veterans with diabetes, congestive heart fail-
ure, hypertension, post-traumatic stress disorder, and other conditions. The program uses
remote monitoring devices in veterans’ homes to communicate health status and to cap-
ture and transmit biometric data that are monitored remotely by care coordinators. CCHT
has shown promising results: fewer bed days of care, reduced hospital admissions, and
high rates of patient satisfaction. This issue brief highlights factors critical to the VHA’s
success—like the organization’s leadership, culture, and existing information technology
infrastructure—as well as opportunities and challenges.
OVERVIEW
Since the 1990s, information and communications technologies—including tele-
health—have been at the core of the Veterans Health Administration’s (VHA’s)
successful system-level transformation toward providing continuous, coordinated,
and comprehensive primary and specialist care services. The VHA’s leadership
and culture; underlying health information technology infrastructure; and strong
commitment to standardized work processes, policies, and training have all con-
tributed to the home telehealth program’s success in meeting the chronic care
needs of a population of aging veterans and reducing their use of institutional
care and its associated costs. The home teleheath model also encourages patient
activation, self-management, and helps in the early detection of complications.
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CASE MICHAEL T. SLAGER (Former North Charleston, S.C. Police Offi.docx
1. CASE: MICHAEL T. SLAGER (Former North Charleston, S.C.
Police Officer)
Note: Please review this case before beginning Assignment 2:
Courts, Prosecution, and the Defense. This material is a
compilation and summary of articles from the New York Times,
CNN, and The Post and Courier in order to best present the
facts of this case from a wide lens. Links to all primary sources
are available within this case.
CHARLESTON, S.C. (NY Times)— More than two years after a
North Charleston, S.C., police officer fired eight rounds toward
the back of a fleeing and unarmed black motorist, the lawman
whose burst of gunfire was recorded on video stood in a federal
courtroom Tuesday to plead guilty to charges that he violated
the slain man’s civil rights.
The plea by the officer, Michael T. Slager, assured a rare
conviction of a law enforcement official for an on-duty killing,
and it left him facing the possibility of life in prison for the
April 2015 shooting of Walter L. Scott. Mr. Slager pleaded
guilty to a single charge of willfully using excessive force to
deprive Mr. Scott of his civil rights.
“We asked for justice,” Anthony Scott, one of Mr. Scott’s
brothers, said. “We received justice.”
Mr. Slager said little during a brief hearing in United States
District Court here, but he acknowledged the factual basis for
the plea agreement, which said he had “used deadly force even
though it was objectively unreasonable under the
circumstances.”
Minutes later, as Mr. Slager was led from the courtroom in
handcuffs, he passed crying members of Mr. Scott’s family.
Across the courtroom’s center aisle, members of Mr. Slager’s
family stood silently and tearfully.
The plea deal effectively resolves all of the pending charges
against Mr. Slager, 35, who had also been indicted on a charge
of murder in state court. While the arrangement offers certain
2. benefits to Mr. Slager, such as a possible reduction under
federal sentencing guidelines for acceptance of responsibility,
the agreement is mostly a victory for people who have spent
years raising alarms about police conduct in the nation.
Under the plea agreement, prosecutors will ask the court to
apply sentencing guidelines that in effect would be for a
second-degree murder charge. Notably, the deal expressly
allows prosecutors to urge Judge David C. Norton, who did not
immediately set a sentencing hearing, to order Mr. Slager to
spend the rest of his life in prison.
“The Department of Justice will hold accountable any law
enforcement officer who violates the civil rights of our citizens
by using excessive force,” Attorney General Jeff Sessions said
in a statement. “Such failures of duty not only harm the
individual victims of these crimes; they harm our country, by
eroding trust in law enforcement and undermining the good
work of the vast majority of honorable and honest police
officers.”
The agreement was greeted here with measured surprise.
Although one of South Carolina’s top lawyers, Andrew J.
Savage III, was in charge of Mr. Slager’s defense, a jury
signaled in December that it nearly returned a conviction for
either murder or manslaughter during a state trial.
Those proceedings ended in a mistrial, but some people here
had wondered whether they would ultimately prod Mr. Slager
into an agreement with prosecutors.
It was not publicly clear until Tuesday morning that it would.
But Mr. Slager abruptly dropped the defense that he had offered
since Mr. Scott’s death in April 2015: that he had feared for his
life after a traffic stop that went awry and a struggle over a
Taser device.
The early moments of Mr. Slager’s fatal encounter with Mr.
Scott were not in dispute. Mr. Slager, a patrolman in North
Charleston, stopped Mr. Scott for a broken taillight. After a
brief, cordial interaction, Mr. Scott fled on foot. (His family has
suggested that Mr. Scott ran because he feared being jailed over
3. outstanding child support payments.)
Mr. Slager gave chase, and, he later testified struggled with Mr.
Scott in a vacant lot over his Taser. But Mr. Scott broke free
and continued to run. Mr. Slager then opened fire, striking Mr.
Scott in the back and sending him crumpling to the ground.
Part of the episode — some of the most controversial seconds
— unfolded as a local barber recorded it on his cellphone while
he walked to work. The stark images ricocheted around the
internet, made newspaper front pages and led television
broadcasts.
Mr. Slager was charged with murder and swiftly fired, and the
City of North Charleston reached a $6.5 million settlement with
Mr. Scott’s family. Meanwhile, Mr. Slager’s defense team
argued that he was a good officer swept up in an era of
discontent and protest over police tactics, especially in the wake
of a white officer’s killing of an unarmed black teenager in
Ferguson, Mo., in August 2014.
That defiance vanished on Tuesday.
“Our responsibility today is to be quiet,” Mr. Savage said after
Mr. Slager entered his plea. Earlier Tuesday, his office had
issued a statement that said, “We hope that Michael’s
acceptance of responsibility will help the Scott family as they
continue to grieve their loss.”
John O’Leary, a defense lawyer in Columbia, the South
Carolina capital, who is a former director of the state’s Criminal
Justice Academy, said it made sense that Mr. Slager would want
to avoid the troubled state prison system and bring the cases
that surrounded him to a conclusion.
“I think he’s lucky to get it,” Mr. O’Leary said of the deal.
Scarlett A. Wilson, the local prosecutor, suggested that her
decision to accept a plea arrangement was something of a
strategic choice. But she and Mr. Scott’s survivors emphasized
that they were in agreement about the outcome that many people
here said would not have been possible without the bystander’s
cellphone video, which showed Mr. Slager standing and firing.
“It’s not a joyous day,” Ms. Wilson said. “It’s sad to see such
4. an event like this happen, and to watch it before your very eyes
and to know how many good men and women in law
enforcement are also paying for what Michael Slager did. It’s
not fair.”
By late afternoon, Mr. Slager had been processed at the
Charleston County jail, where he will await sentencing and an
eventual transfer to a federal prison.
Standing outside the courthouse, Mr. Scott’s mother, Judy
Scott, said she forgave Mr. Slager, and although one of her sons
called for Mr. Slager to be sentenced to a life term, Ms. Scott
was less specific about what penalty she wanted her son’s killer
to face.
“Michael Slager admitted what he did,” Ms. Scott said. “That
was enough years for me because no matter how many years
Michael Slager gets, it would not bring back my son.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/02/us/michael-slager-walter-
scott-north-charleston-shooting.html?_r=0
(CNN) In a plea deal with prosecutors, former South Carolina
police officer Michael Slager admitted to using excessive force
in the 2015 shooting death of Walter Scott.
Slager shot Scott in the back as the unarmed man was running
away from Slager after a traffic stop. In a reversal from his
previous account, Slager admitted in court Tuesday that he did
not shoot Scott in self-defense and said that his use of force was
unreasonable.
Scott's death sparked renewed "Black Lives Matter" protests
after the 50-year-old became the latest in a series of unarmed
black men killed by police.
With his family and Scott's family present, Slager pleaded
guilty Tuesday in US District Court in Charleston to a federal
charge of deprivation of rights under the color of law. In
exchange for the plea, state murder charges, as well as two
other federal charges, will be dismissed.
The civil rights offense has a maximum penalty of life in
5. prison. The plea agreement states that the government will ask
the court to apply sentencing guidelines for second degree
murder, which carries up to 25 years in prison. He was taken
into custody after the hearing and will remain there until
sentencing later this year.
Scott's mother said the sentence mattered little to her now that
Slager had admitted responsibility.
"What made me feel good about it is that Michael Slager
admitted what he did. That was enough years for me," she said
in response to the question how much time she wanted Slager to
serve.
"No matter how many years Michael Slager gets, it would not
bring back my son," she said. "This is a victory for Walter. This
is justice for the family, but this is just the beginning."
The plea marks one of the first resolutions of a high-profile
police shooting under new Attorney General Jeff Sessions. He
has ordered a review of police reform activities of the previous
administration -- many of which were launched in response to
police-involved shootings.
"The Department of Justice will hold accountable any law
enforcement officer who violates the civil rights of our citizens
by using excessive force," Sessions said in a statement Tuesday.
"Such failures of duty not only harm the individual victims of
these crimes; they harm our country, by eroding trust in law
enforcement and undermining the good work of the vast
majority of honorable and honest police officers.
Slager was an officer for the North Charleston Police
Department when he pulled Scott over for a broken tail light. A
few moments later, Scott ran away.
A foot chase ensued, and a bystander's cell phone video
captured Slager firing eight times -- striking Scott five times in
the back.
Slager initially said he feared for his life because Scott had
grabbed his Taser -- but the plea agreement contains no such
claim.
Slager's first attempt to use his Taser did not stop Scott. The
6. second deployment dropped Scott to the ground but he got up
and took off running again. As he was fleeing, Slager shot him.
"We hope that Michael's acceptance of responsibility will help
the Scott family as they continue to grieve their loss," Slager's
attorney, Andy Savage, said.
Lawyers for Scott's relatives said they accepted the plea deal.
"What these government officials did is they told Walter Scott
and they told the Scott family, 'You matter.' And that is what we
need to see all across the country, not just when there is a
video," Justin Bamberg said.
Attorney Chris Stewart said the plea represented a rare show of
accountability compared to other police-involved deaths that did
not end in pleas or convictions.
"Today is rare. The Garners. The Blands. The Rice family. They
didn't get this type of justice that we got today," said Stewart,
who represents the family of Alton Sterling, who was shot by
police in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
"So it is a phenomenal day. And hopefully this will be the
blueprint of future success for civil rights because it's got to
change."
http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/02/us/michael-slager-federal-plea/
(Post and Courier) Former North Charleston police officer
Michael Slager pleaded guilty Tuesday to violating Walter
Scott’s civil rights by shooting the fleeing black man five times
— a sudden shift after insisting for two years he had gunned
down Scott in self-defense.
Slager reached the agreement with prosecutors a week before a
jury was scheduled to be selected for his trial in federal court.
Under the "global" plea deal, state authorities promptly dropped
a separate state murder charge. Two other federal counts of
lying to investigators and using a firearm in a violent crime also
will be dismissed.
Though a sentence was not agreed upon, the plea eliminates the
7. unpredictability of a jury trial and will place key issues
affecting Slager’s punishment squarely in the hands of a judge
who'll decide in the coming weeks whether the officer
committed murder in shooting Scott.
The charge — deprivation of rights under the color of law,
carries as little as no prison time and as much as life behind
bars.
Scott's loved ones and their attorneys praised the occasion as a
rare felony conviction that never came in countless other police
shootings nationwide. They watched Slager stand in U.S.
District Court in Charleston and make a key admission, that he
had used excessive force against Scott and acted willfully with
an intent to break the law.
"Today, he told the truth," Scott's oldest brother, Anthony, said
after the hearing. "That is our victory."
Captured on video that spread worldwide, the April 2015
shooting following a traffic stop for a minor violation gave
credence to long-standing allegations of unfair policing in
North Charleston. The stark evidence brought intense scrutiny
to the city amid a broader inspection of police uses of force
against black people. Slager is white.
North Charleston ultimately paid $6.5 million to Scott's family.
"Justice doesn't look like a big settlement check; it looks like
today," Chris Stewart, a Scott family attorney, said. "Today is a
monumental day ... for civil rights."
Slager, 35, hugged his lead attorney after entering the plea.
From a front-row bench, his mother and wife watched as
authorities handcuffed Slager and led him from the packed
courtroom. He was later booked into the Charleston County jail
where he had spent about eight months after his arrest.
"We hope that Michael’s acceptance of responsibility will help
the Scott family as they continue to grieve their loss," his
attorney, Andy Savage, said in a statement.
The civil rights case, scheduled for May 15, would have been
the second trial Slager faced. The first, on the state murder
charge, ended last year in a hung jury.
8. Ninth Circuit Solicitor Scarlett Wilson, who prosecuted that
state case, said the federal conviction captures an element the
murder trial would not have: that a policeman had violated
Scott's rights. She hoped the resolution would make law
enforcement safer.
"We have to turn this around," she said. "My hope is that
accountability for Michael Slager means that fewer officers will
die, that fewer civilians will die."
Murder still a factor
The patrolman pulled over Scott’s car on April 4, 2015 because
of broken brake light. The motorist soon ran.
As the officer tried to subdue Scott with a Taser, they got into a
fight. Slager said Scott took the stun gun and that he fired out
of fear for his own life.
But bystander Feidin Santana stood behind a nearby fence
filming the action with a cellphone. The footage showed Scott
running as the Taser bounded along the ground. Slager started
shooting when Scott was more than 10 feet away.
Afterward, Slager picked up the Taser and dropped it near
Scott’s lifeless body, only to fetch it within seconds.
Slager wasn’t jailed until three days later, after the video
emerged publicly. By then, federal authorities alleged, Slager
had lied to state investigators by saying Scott was coming at
him when he fired, a contradiction to the video evidence.
U.S. District Judge David Norton can consider that alleged
deception in deciding a sentence.
Before the next hearing, federal probation agents will compile a
report portraying the various aggravating and mitigating factors
in the crime. But Norton will have other elements to consider.
The sentencing itself could amount to a days-long miniature
trial without the same rules of evidence.
http://www.postandcourier.com/news/ex-police-officer-michael-
slager-pleads-guilty-to-civil-rights/article_c6836d4c-2f2f-11e7-
a651-7f3c5a7bbf12.html
9. CAN USE OF ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS IMPROVE
THE QUALITY OF CARE FOR PATIENTS?
NURS 350
Dr. Jean Gordon
INTRODUCTION – clearly stated problem and purpose of the
study
Independent and dependent variables
Assumptions, hypothesis or questions (depending on research
type)
THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK – description of the theoretical
10. framework to be utilized
Identification of the concepts to be explored
Rationale for choosing the framework
REVIEW OF LITERAture – AT LEAST FROM 4 SCHolarly
sources included
Review and proposal focus
METHODOLOGY – description of the study type (quantitative
or qualitative)
Description of the study design
Rationale for the use of the selected design
Inclusion of sample size, type, sampling method, data collection
Method of Protection of Human subjects ( consent)
Questionnaire consent forms must be included as appendices
DATA ANALYSIS - - data analysis method is appropriate for
study design
Method of data analysis is clearly stated
Medthod for displaying findings is stated
APPLICABILITY TO NURSING – Research focuses on a
problem significant to nursing
Research would contribute to nursing knowledge
Proposal is complete so that another researcher could replicate
the study
Statement about areas of nursing that would benefit this study
CASA
Court Appointed Special Advocates
Guardian Ad Litem Program
11. San Angelo, Texas (915) 653-4673
BACKGROUND
Use this section to explain the reason for the removal. Include
the date of the removal
and if it was an emergency removal. Include information about
whether the family was
involved in Family Based Safety Services. Also include all of
the child’s former
placements in this section. Add any other pertinent background
information.
CURRENT INFORMATION
Child’s name here Include the child’s age, level of care (if
established), and any
medications the child is prescribed. Include all relevant
information about the child,
including placement. If the child is school aged, include
grades, if known. Discuss the
child’s situation in the relative or foster placement and state
whether the child is placed
with siblings, whether the child has adjusted and bonded, if the
child is eating and
sleeping normally, etc. Include information about visitation
with parents and/or relatives.
You can include a separate paragraph for each child.
Mother’s name here State that she is the mother of the child.
Include information
about the mother’s participation in services such as counseling
and parenting and what
progress she has made. Include the following: any medications
prescribed; if she is/has
participated in rehab—where and when; any criminal history or
former CPS history;
whether she participated in a Family Group Conference and
12. when; any employment,
transportation or appropriate housing; her current visitation
with her child(ren); family
support; who she is living with; etc. Include information
regarding CASA’s contact with
the mother.
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Report to District Court
Cause Title: Name of Case Cause No. C-00-0000-CPS
Court No.: 340th Judicial District Judge: Weatherby
Hearing Date: Month 0, 2011 Time: 00:00
A.M.
CASA/GAL: Volunteer’s Name CPS Caseworker:
Name
Case Mgr: Case Manager’s Name
Child(ren): Child’s Name DOB: 00/00/00 Gender:
M or F
Attorney Ad Litem: Name
Father’s name here State that he is the father of the child.
Include information about
the father’s participation in services such as counseling and
parenting and what
progress he has made. Include the following: any medications
prescribed; if he is/has
participated in rehab—where and when; any criminal history or
13. former CPS history;
whether he participated in a Family Group Conference and
when; any employment,
transportation or appropriate housing; his current visitation with
his child(ren); family
support; who he is living with; etc. Include information
regarding CASA’s contact with
the father.
Foster/Relative placement information here (if noteworthy)
State any additional
information regarding foster placement or relative placement
that has not been
previously addressed. As the case progresses, information may
include the
placement’s intentions regarding permanency for the child.
PERMANENCY PLAN
The information in this section should state the Department’s
position and whether
CASA is in agreement. Some examples might be:
EXAMPLE: The Department’s plan is Family Reunification.
CASA is in agreement with
the plan at this time.
EXAMPLE: The Department’s plan is Termination/Relative
Adoption. CASA is in
agreement with the plan.
EXAMPLE: The Department’s plan is Termination/Non
Relative Adoption. CASA is not
in agreement with the plan. An appropriate relative has been
identified.
AREAS OF STRENGTH
This section should be written in bullet form listing the
strengths of the case. Examples
are bulleted below:
14. • The parents love their children and visit them regularly
• The children are placed together in a relative placement
• The children have adjusted well in their foster placement
• The parents have appropriate housing and transportation
• The child is receiving physical therapy
• The child is seen by ECI weekly
• The mother is employed
• The father is participating in outpatient treatment
AREAS OF CONCERN
This section should be written in bullet form restating and
summarizing the MAIN
concerns of the case. These concerns should be discussed in the
body of the report.
Examples are bulleted below:
• The child is ten months old, cannot sit alone, but is not
receiving therapy
• The father is unemployed and has no permanent home
• The mother refuses to address her substance abuse issue
• The children are very bonded but not placed together in care
• The father is not motivated to change and blames others for
his current situation
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• The father is currently incarcerated
• The mother abuses drugs and has an extensive criminal history
• The mother has five children who have different fathers
CASA COMMENTS
Use this section to summarize the case or add any comments
15. that you believe are very
important. This could include your observations about the
parent/child relationship
(negative or positive), concerns about a visitation issue or any
other comment about the
child, parent or placement. For example, “CASA has observed
that the children have a
very strong bond with their mother. The mother has had
excellent compliance with her
service plan. She has also shown progress in counseling and
realizes that a lifestyle
change is necessary for her to be protective of her children. If
the mother continues her
success, the Department and CASA plan to recommend a
monitored return by the next
hearing.”
RECOMMENDATIONS
This section should include recommendations by CASA.
Recommendations should be
stated in a numbered bullet format following the introductory
statement. Any
recommendations should be supported in the body of the report:
Based on the above summary and observations, CASA
respectfully recommends:
1. That the Department maintain Temporary Managing
Conservatorship of the child
(ren)
2. That the child(ren) remain in his/her current placement at this
time
Examples of other recommendations are:
1. That the Department be granted Permanent Managing
Conservatorship of the
16. child(ren)
2. That the Department conduct a home study for the maternal
grandmother
3. That the child receive physical therapy
4. That the parents pay child support
5. That parent/child visits be increased
6. That parent/child visits cease, by recommendation of the
child’s therapist
LIST OF CONTACTS MADE BY CASA
This section can be two columns and include the name and
relationship to the child
(ren). Include all contacts made, whether in person, by phone,
or by record (if
appropriate). Never state the foster parent’s actual name in a
CASA report.
Name of child, child CPS Case Worker
Name of mother, mother CPS Supervisor
Name of father, father CPS Investigator
Relative Staff at Rehabilitation Facility
School teacher TGC Judicial Records
Foster Parents Pediatrician
Friend of family
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Respectfully submitted,
_________________________________________
__________________________
Your Name, CASA/GAL Date