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The Affordable Care Act was signed into law by President Barack Obama in March 2010. Many of the provisions of the law directly affect health care providers. Review the following topic materials: "About the Affordable Care Act" "Health Care Transformation: The Affordable Care Act and More" What are the most important elements of the Affordable Care Act in relation to community and public health? What is the role of the nurse in implementing this law? .
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1. Plato realizes that the general run of humankind can think, and speak, etc., without (so far as they acknowledge) any awareness of his realm of Forms.
2. The allegory of the cave is supposed to explain this.
3. In the allegory, Plato likens people untutored in the Theory of Forms to prisoners chained in a cave, unable to turn their heads. All they can see is the wall of the cave. Behind them burns a fire. Between the fire and the prisoners there is a parapet, along which puppeteers can walk. The puppeteers, who are behind the prisoners, hold up puppets that cast shadows on the wall of the cave. The prisoners are unable to see these puppets, the real objects, that pass behind them. What the prisoners see and hear are shadows and echoes cast by objects that they do not see. Here is an illustration of Plato’s Cave:
From Great Dialogues of Plato (Warmington and Rouse, eds.) New York, Signet Classics: 1999. p. 316.
4. Such prisoners would mistake appearance for reality. They would think the things they see on the wall (the shadows) were real; they would know nothing of the real causes of the shadows.
5. So when the prisoners talk, what are they talking about? If an object (a book, let us say) is carried past behind them, and it casts a shadow on the wall, and a prisoner says “I see a book,” what is he talking about?
He thinks he is talking about a book, but he is really talking about a shadow. But he uses the word “book.” What does that refer to?
6. Plato gives his answer at line (515b2). The text here has puzzled many editors, and it has been frequently emended. The translation in Grube/Reeve gets the point correctly:
“And if they could talk to one another, don’t you think they’d suppose that the names they used applied to the things they see passing before them?”
7. Plato’s point is that the prisoners would be mistaken. For they would be taking the terms in their language to refer to the shadows that pass before their eyes, rather than (as is correct, in Plato’s view) to the real things that cast the shadows.
If a prisoner says “That’s a book” he thinks that the word “book” refers to the very thing he is looking at. But he would be wrong. He’s only looking at a shadow. The real referent of the word “book” he cannot see. To see it, he would have to turn his head around.
8. Plato’s point: the general terms of our language are not “names” of the physical objects that we can see. They are actually names of things that we cannot see, things that we can only grasp with the mind.
9. When the prisoners are released, they can turn their heads and see the real objects. Then they realize their error. What can we do that is analogous to turning our heads and seeing the causes of the shadows? We can come to grasp the Forms with our minds.
10. Plato’s aim in the Republic is to describe what is necessary for us to achieve this reflective understanding. But even without it, it remains true that our very ability to thi.
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Accelerating. Designing the organization and setting up processes to respond more quickly to changes in the environment.
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1. Plato realizes that the general run of humankind can think, and speak, etc., without (so far as they acknowledge) any awareness of his realm of Forms.
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Learning Objectives
What are important trends in marketing practices?
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Publius Vergilius Maro
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Virgil was regarded by the Romans as their greatest poet.
His influence on Dante and Western literature, like that
of Ovid, is profound. The Aeneid is his most famous work
and became Rome’s national epic.
The son of a farmer in northern Italy, Virgil came to be
regarded as one of Rome's greatest poets. Virgil devoted
his life life to poetry and to studies connected with it. He
never married, and the first half of his life was that of a
scholar and near recluse. But, as his poetry won him
fame, he gradually won the friendship of many important
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(adapted from Encyclopedia Britannica and poetry foundation.org)
Dante Alighieri
1265 – 1321 CE
Dante Alighieri was born in Florence, Italy to a notable family of modest
means. His mother died when he was seven years old, and his father
remarried, having two more children.
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year interval (although it might be a symbolic time period). They were
both married to other people, and she died at 25. But he continued to
write about throughout his life. We consider his love for her to be a
type of “courtly love.” It is otherworldly and has a spiritual aspect.
His most famous work is the Divine Comedy. The story begins when he
finds himself lost in a woods in middle age. Virgil finds him and leads
him through hell and purgatory. Beatrice is his guide in Paradise.
(adapted from poets.)
Dante is very important to western literature.
T. S. Eliot claimed:
Dante and Shakespeare divide the world between them, there is no third.
And Virgil is very important to Dante.
Dante, addressing Virgil in Canto 1 of the Divine Comedy: Thou art my master.
We will start with The Aeneid.
Who is Aeneas?
There are multiple myths about the founding of Rome. One very
important one is told in The Aeneas, the story of a Trojan prince who
brought together the survivors from Troy. They boarded ships and
sailed in search of a new home. The Aeneid tells their story, focused
of course on their leader.
As The Aeneid opens, Aeneas and the Trojans come to Carthage,
where he falls in love with the Queen Dido. His bliss is short lived, as
he is told by the gods that he must leave her. Our reading, Book 6,
comes half way through the story. Aeneas’s father has died along the
way, and Aeneas wants to see him. To do that, he must descend into
the underworld—and come back. Very few have ever made the round
trip journey. He is guided by the priestess of Apollo.
The Temple of Apollo built by Daedalus.
Book 6 of The Aeneid gives an elaborate description of
how Daedalus had depicted the story of Theseus, the
minotaur, Ariadne, and his escape from Crete on the
doors.
Aeneas must go through these doors, get advice from
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Identify significant factors that influenced your decision to pursue a Master of Social Work (MSW degree and how you intend to use it in the future. (1-2 paragraphs)
SOCIAL WORK VALUES AND ETHICS
Describe your understanding of the social work profession and its core values. Compare your own values with the professional social work values, any potential value based or ethical conflicts you might experience and how you plan to address or reconcile these conflicts (whether it be in the classroom, in field, in future practice or in any other areas). (1 page)
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The Advantages of Budgeting
A budget is a document that forecasts the financial results and financial position of a business for
one or more future periods. At a minimum, a budget contains an estimated income statement that
describes anticipated financial results. A more complex budget also contains an estimated
balance sheet, which contains the entity’s anticipated assets, liabilities, and equity positions at
various points in time in the future.
A prime use of the budget is to serve as a performance baseline for the measurement of actual
results. Budgets may also be linked to bonus plans in order to direct the activities of various
company employees. A budget may also be used for both tax planning and treasury planning.
Despite these valid uses, there are also a number of problems with budgeting that have given rise
to a movement dedicated to the elimination of budgets.
Budgeting has been with us a long time, and is used by nearly every large company. They would
not do so if there were not some perceived advantages to budgeting. These advantages include:
▪ Planning orientation. The process of creating a budget takes management away from its
short-term, day-to-day management of a business and forces it to think longer-term. This is
the chief goal of budgeting, even if management does not succeed in meeting its goals as
outlined in the budget – at least it is thinking about the company’s competitive and
financial position and how to improve it.
▪ Model scenarios. If a company is faced with a number of possible paths down which it can
travel, you can create a set of budgets, each based on different scenarios, to estimate the
financial results of each strategic direction.
▪ Profitability review. It is easy to lose sight of where a company is making most of its
money, during the scramble of day-to-day management. A properly structured budget
points out which aspects of a business generate cash and which ones use it, which forces
management to consider whether it should drop some parts of the business or expand in
others. However, this advantage only applies to a budget sufficiently detailed to describe
profits at the product, product line, or business unit level.
▪ Assumptions review. The budgeting process forces management to think about why the
company is in business, as well as its key assumptions about its business environment. A
periodic re-evaluation of these issues may result in altered assumptions, which may in turn
alter the way in which management decides to operate the business.
▪ Performance evaluations. Senior management can tie bonuses or other incentives to how
employees perform in comparison to the budget. The accounting department then creates
budget versus actual reports to give employees feedback regarding how they are
progressing toward their goals. This approach is most common with financial goals,
though operational goals (such as reducing the scrap rat.
The adjusted trial balance of Parsons Company at December 31, 2014, .docx
The adjusted trial balance of Parsons Company at December 31, 2014, includes the following accounts owners capital $15,600, owners drawings $7000, service revenue $37000, salaries and wages expense 16000, insurance expense 2000, rent expense 4000, supplies expense 1500, and depreciation expense 1300. Prepare an income statement for the year
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The adjusted trial balance columns of the worksheet for Alshwer Company, owned by M. Alshwer, are as follows.
ALSHWER COMPANY
Worksheet
For the Year Ended December 31, 2014
Adjusted Trial Balance
Account No.
Account Titles
Dr.
Cr.
101
Cash
5,101
112
Accounts Receivable
10,736
126
Supplies
1,771
130
Prepaid Insurance
2,097
151
Equipment
27,320
152
Accumulated Depreciation—Equipment
5,188
200
Notes Payable
14,900
201
Accounts Payable
6,223
212
Salaries and Wages Payable
2,425
230
Interest Payable
513
301
Owner’s Capital
13,212
306
Owner’s Drawings
7,102
400
Service Revenue
60,529
610
Advertising Expense
8,017
631
Supplies Expense
4,198
711
Depreciation Expense
5,188
722
Insurance Expense
3,140
726
Salaries and Wages Expense
27,807
905
Interest Expense
513
Totals
102,990
102,990
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The activity provides opportunity for student to develop a description of a child with a communicative disorder and to explain how would you meet the needs of that child in their classroom . Students chose one communicative disorders from below. Please read Chapter 13. Use the Internet to search for your chose of disorder or textbook or journal article.
1. Language Disorder 2. Articulation Disorder 3. Fluency Disorder 4. Cognitive Impairment
Write a general description of the child do not use the child real name or parents.
Include the following information: 1. Age and Gender of the Child 2. Reason for Referral
3. Background (city/town/mother/grandmother,etc...)
4. Family (culture/home language of child/work) 5. health and Development
6. School 7. Standardize Assessment ( hypothetical if you do not have test results)
8. Intervention Planning
Student take a look at the searches below they are related to language case study examples : speech pathology case study example, language development case study example, case study of a child with communication disorder and case study- speech and language delay.
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The additional component this week will be to share your plan with one or more colleagues or administrators. Write approximately two to three pages describing the nature of the dialogue and any changes you make as a result of the collaboration. Include a reflection about the collaboration experience. Relate your discussion, changes, and reflection to the textbook and body of literature, by including in-text quotes and citations.
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document. Refer to the
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The ability to locate and utilize information relative to Health and.docx
The ability to locate and utilize information relative to Health and Human Services is an important component of many health and human service jobs. Some of the areas included in HHS programs are:
Legal/illegal immigration
Poverty
Violence in the Media
Unemployment
Alcoholism
Gambling
Sexual Harassment
Criminal Justice
Hunger / Homelessness
Mental Illness
Health
As an example, the area of “poverty” was selected from the above list to locate information and relevant reports. To accomplish this, the following was entered into a search engine (such as Google or MSN): “Health and human services and programs dealing with poverty.” One of the 1, 490,000 “hits” was titled: “Poverty Guidelines, Research and Measurement.” Upon searching this website, an elaborate set of focus subtitles was found. Under the heading “Poverty Research Centers” six more references were discovered. As the interest was focused on discovering what information was available, the search centered on “The National Poverty Center.” An examination on this site under that heading yielded numerous areas regarding new research opportunities, informing the policy community, and training for young researchers. Your specific assignment follows. Start with an exploration of what can be found in several of the areas listed above. Then, identify one area and prepare a descriptive post outlining the information in this site. You may want to experiment with various areas in order to understand the unusually large number of resources / programs, but also the kinds of information.
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The Aboriginals of Australia Art DavidsonMy fascination with t.docx
The Aboriginals of Australia
Art Davidson
My fascination with the Aborigines of Australia began when I was a child growing up in a small town in Colorado. I can still remember some of the images that called to me from the pages of an old National Geographic Magazine- a group of naked children playing by a stream, a solitary Aborigine walking across the desert, the eyes of an old man mysterious and calm in his dark face. These people seemed closer to nature that I, free and untroubled. Years later, after moving to Alaska, I came across a sobering account of the Australian Aborigines. Written by an Aboriginal man named J.T. Patton, the article burst my childhood fantasies about a simple, carefree life.
“Our self-respect has been taken away from us, and we have been driven towards extermination,” wrote Patton in an early issue of the Abo Call, the first Aboriginal newspaper, which he founded in 1938. “We have been called a ‘dying race’ but we do not intend to die. We intend to live, and to take our place in the Australian community as citizens with full equality. The white community must be made to realize that we are human beings, the same as themselves. We do not wish to go back to the Stone Age. We don’t want charity from the white people, we want justice. We intend to work steadily for this aim, no matter how many years it may take.”
J.T. Patton, I learned, was founding father of the Aboriginal rights movement. Like Ghandi in India and Martin Luther King, Jr., in the United States, he had been arrested many times for encouraging his people to stand up for their rights. For most of my life, I’ve lived about as far from Australia as anyone could, but in December 1991 a chance encounter brought Patton’s world much closer to me. At a gathering of grass-roots leaders in Paris, someone introduced me to an Aboriginal woman named Pauline Gordon. She was J.T. Patton’s daughter.
“I’m just an ordinary person who goes around talking to people,” she said. “I pop up here and I pop up there. I’m a member of the Bunjalung tribe on the coast of New South Wales. That’s where I come from. My mother’s totem is the possum, my father’s was the goanna lizard. My husband is the dingo. He says I talk too much.”
And Pauline is quite a talker. When we sat down to visit over lunch, she held forth in her warm voice a lively accent on everything from Aborigine Dreamtime to her own grandchildren. Her brother Cecil, she told me, helps run the Aboriginal Legal Services in Sydney. Her sons, Kenny and Shane, play the digeridoo (a musical instrument made from a hollow tree limb that makes a haunting sound) and they are going through their tribe’s tradition of initiation and manhood. I began to sense that, in one way or another, Pauline’s who family was carrying on the work begun by J.T. Patton sixty years before. Our lunch lasted seven and a half hours, a record for me. And by the time we said good bye, Pauline was insisting that I come down to Australia to visit her .
The acronym autism spectrum disorder” (ASD) refers to a con.docx
The acronym “
autism
spectrum disorder” (ASD) refers to a continuation of neurodevelopmental disorders that happens mostly in kids. Communication issues and social contact issues are the common problems in this order. Repetition patterns of behavior are common in people with ASD.
No matter who the person is, ASD can affect people all over the world, regardless of ethnicity, culture, or economic status. According to a report, Autism is more common in boys than in females.
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The Acme Corporation uses a periodic inventory system and buys 1,450.docx
The Acme Corporation uses a periodic inventory system and buys 1,450 units of merchandise in January at $17 each. Acme buys 1,700 units at $16 each in February and 800 units at $18 each in March. The company had no beginning inventory. Acme sells 1,500 units during this quarter. If Acme uses the LIFO method, what is its cost of goods sold for the quarter?
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The 4Cs will help our students attain 21st century skills that will .docx
The 4Cs will help our students attain 21st century skills that will make them productive members of society. Walsh & Sattes (2010 write that practices such as student engagement with discussion, asking quality questions, and collaborating need to be classroom staples for our students to attain those 21st century skills (page 106)
This week focuses on responsible learning and engagement. Discuss the following.
How do the Four Cs—critical thinking, communication, collaboration, and curiosity—constitute the basics for learning?
Why is it important to encourage student questions? How do they relate to student engagement? To student responsibility?
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The 6-D model of national culture Geert Hofstede, assisted.docx
The 6-D model of national culture
Geert Hofstede, assisted by others, came up with six basic issues that society needs to come to
term with in order to organize itself. These are called dimensions of culture. Each of them has
been expressed on a scale that runs roughly from 0 to 100.
Dimension maps of the world: Individualism
Each dimension has been derived by comparing many, but not all, countries in
the world. The findings can be summarized into six world maps of the distribution
of that dimension. Of course, in reality there can be quite a bit of within-country
variation; these maps should be seen as rough 'climate maps' of culture.
The last two dimensions
The last two dimensions were found later, and in different studies, than the first
four. This is why different countries appear on the world maps. These maps are
taken from the 2007 book "Why we are different and similar" by Michael Minkov.
In our 2010 book they are re-scaled to a 0-100 format. Remember, the numbers
do not really 'mean' anything. They are just there for convenience.
Dimension maps: Long-term Orientation
Culture-Based Negotiation Styles
In an anonymous article, a Japanese writer describes United States negotiators as hard
to understand. One of the reasons for this, we are told, is because "unlike Japanese,
the Americans are not racially or culturally homogenous."[1] While it is difficult to
characterize any national or cultural approach to negotiation, generalizations are
frequently drawn. These generalizations are helpful to the extent that the reader
remembers that they are only guides, not recipes. Any generalization holds true or not
depending on many contextual factors including time, setting, situation, stakes, history
between the parties, nature of the issue, individual preferences, interpersonal dynamics
and mood.
Any generalization will apply to some members of a group some of the time. This is best
seen by considering generalizations about groups to which you belong. If you hear that
women or men tend to negotiate in this way, or Americans in another way, what effect
does it have on you as a member of these groups? If you want to answer, "Actually, it
depends," you are among the majority, for most of us resist easy categorization and
broad classifications. At the same time, it can be useful to back up and attempt to see
ourselves and others from a distance so that the patterns and habits that define what is
"normal" in negotiation can be examined for what they are: culturally bound and
culturally defined common sense.
In this essay, some generalizations about cultural and national approaches to
negotiation will be outlined. These may help negotiators and mediators prepare for
negotiations by raising the kinds of differences that occur across cultures, and pointing
out possible pitfalls of lack of attention to cultural factors. They should be taken as a
series of starting points rather than defini.
The 820 children at a certain school were asked what they prefer to .docx
The 820 children at a certain school were asked what they prefer to drink with their lunch, and the following responses were obtained.
Drink
Number
soft drinks
341
milk/chocolate milk
210
water
97
tea
38
other
134
The school only serves milk, chocolate milk, or water with lunch. What is the probability that the first student in line for lunch will be served their preferred beverage with their lunch? Round to two decimal places.
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The Accidental Statesman General Petraeus and the City of Mosul.docx
The Accidental Statesman: General Petraeus and the City of Mosul, Iraq
In late April 2003, Major General David Petraeus and the US Army's 101st Airborne Division entered the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, capital of Nineveh Province. It was less than a month since the start of the US invasion of Iraq. But US troops had already captured Baghdad, dictator Saddam Hussein had fled and, while security was still an overriding concern, the US military was no longer in full battle mode. In Mosul, Petraeus quickly found himself confronting the question: What next?
The city of 1.7 million was a shambles as much from looting as from war. US Marines had just killed 17 Iraqis during a riot. The streets were in chaos, with police and other security forces nowhere to be seen. The city had no electricity, running water or garbage removal. Shops were closed. Most public buildings and factories lay in ruins. There was no administrative or economic infrastructure; ministries in Baghdad which under Saddam had controlled all economic activity were now inoperative. Those who had led the old Iraq had vanished: political leaders, judges, university faculty, teachers, factory managers, ministry directors. The most senior of them were anyway suspect as members of the reviled former ruling Baath, Party.
Addressing these deficiencies was hardly standard military business. But there was no one else to do it. As Petraeus saw it, his task was to provide the building blocks for a new Iraqi society. How, the general wondered, could he and his "Screaming Eagles" --as the division had been known since World War II--reestablish conditions for normal daily life and help create the norms of a democratic society?
Whom could he trust? What was most urgent? What message should he give his troops? What was the trade-offs between security and building bridges to the local population?
Petraeus found himself arbitrating a dizzying array of questions: How could he involve Iraqis in the rebuilding? Should there be elections? If so, who should stand? Could some Baath Party officials retain their jobs? If so, which ones? How and who should pay the thousands of unemployed civil servants?
What about controlling inflation? Should border crossings reopen for trade? How could he re-start the university, open banks, and foster the creation of new businesses? What about the media? Underlying these operational dilemmas lay a deeper uncertainty: could Petraeus establish himself as a leader whose decisions were not only appropriate--but whose style would command the respect of a society not his own?
Run-up to Mosul
When the 101st Airborne first crossed into Iraq from Kuwait on Friday, March 21, 2003, Petraeus had not known that the division would be sent to Mosul. In fact, the entire short war, like its lead-up, had been one of continual adaptation to changing circumstances. Petraeus had gotten word only on February 6 that the division, based at Fort Campbell, Kentucky, would deploy to Kuw.
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The Academic Discourse Community
Rolf Norgaard
The following is excerpted from various sections of Composing Knowledge: Readings for College Writers
Imagine that you enter a parlor. You come late. When you arrive, others have long preceded you, and they are engaged in a
heated discussion, a discussion too heated for them to pause and tell you exactly what it is about. In fact, the discussion had
already begun long before any of them got there, so no one present is qualified to retrace all the steps that had gone before. You
listen for a while, until you decide that you have caught the tenor of the argument; then you put in your oar. Someone answers;
you answer him; another comes to your defense;; another aligns himself against you.…However, the discussion is interminable.
The hour grows later, you must depart. And you do depart, with the discussion still vigorously in progress.
Kenneth Burke, The Philosophy of Literary Form
Entering the Conversation
When you enter the university, or enter advanced course work in your major, you are entering the sort of parlor that Kenneth
Burke describes. While the conversation can certainly be engaging, and the ideas stimulating, the experience of entering a new
setting can be quite unsettling. Who are these folks who are deep in conversation, and what are they getting so worked up
about? On what basis are they taking sides? What does it take to join the conversation and become one of “them”? And what are
the “moves” involved in having a voice in the conversation and in having that voice heard? We would do well to think of the
university as a kind of Burkean parlor or rather a set of overlapping parlors, for no one parlor could ever be sufficient to capture
all of the conversations that go on in various disciplines or on campus.
Although we may think of a college or university as a collection of buildings, or our own education as a list of courses
completed or of expertise gained, the conversational metaphor is actually quite apt. The university is a house of argument. The
university represents an ongoing conversation about questions that are genuinely at issue. An essential part of your college
education is not just learning facts but also learning how to make sense of and join that conversation—a conversation that is not
limited to classrooms but also extends to larger civic spaces.
To enter and take an active role in Burke’s parlor, or in the conversations on your campus and in your disciplines, you’ll need to
figure out the implicit, unstated rules for how people go about talking and arguing. In college, as in the professional world,
much of this conversation occurs in and through written texts. Although there are surely general patterns or guidelines to
academic conversations, you’ll need to alert yourself to the subtle but telling differences between how conversation partners
handle themselves in different conte.
Introduction to Quality Improvement Essentials
This is a presentation by Dada Robert in a Your Skill Boost masterclass organised by the Excellence Foundation for South Sudan (EFSS) on Saturday, the 25th and Sunday, the 26th of May 2024.
He discussed the concept of quality improvement, emphasizing its applicability to various aspects of life, including personal, project, and program improvements. He defined quality as doing the right thing at the right time in the right way to achieve the best possible results and discussed the concept of the "gap" between what we know and what we do, and how this gap represents the areas we need to improve. He explained the scientific approach to quality improvement, which involves systematic performance analysis, testing and learning, and implementing change ideas. He also highlighted the importance of client focus and a team approach to quality improvement.
How to Break the cycle of negative Thoughts
We all have good and bad thoughts from time to time and situation to situation. We are bombarded daily with spiraling thoughts(both negative and positive) creating all-consuming feel , making us difficult to manage with associated suffering. Good thoughts are like our Mob Signal (Positive thought) amidst noise(negative thought) in the atmosphere. Negative thoughts like noise outweigh positive thoughts. These thoughts often create unwanted confusion, trouble, stress and frustration in our mind as well as chaos in our physical world. Negative thoughts are also known as “distorted thinking”.
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means. His mother died when he was seven years old, and his father
remarried, having two more children.
Dante was never married to his “Beatrice.” They met twice, at a nine
year interval (although it might be a symbolic time period). They were
both married to other people, and she died at 25. But he continued to
write about throughout his life. We consider his love for her to be a
type of “courtly love.” It is otherworldly and has a spiritual aspect.
His most famous work is the Divine Comedy. The story begins when he
finds himself lost in a woods in middle age. Virgil finds him and leads
him through hell and purgatory. Beatrice is his guide in Paradise.
(adapted from poets.)
Dante is very important to western literature.
T. S. Eliot claimed:
Dante and Shakespeare divide the world between them, there is no third.
And Virgil is very important to Dante.
Dante, addressing Virgil in Canto 1 of the Divine Comedy: Thou art my master.
We will start with The Aeneid.
Who is Aeneas?
There are multiple myths about the founding of Rome. One very
important one is told in The Aeneas, the story of a Trojan prince who
brought together the survivors from Troy. They boarded ships and
sailed in search of a new home. The Aeneid tells their story, focused
of course on their leader.
As The Aeneid opens, Aeneas and the Trojans come to Carthage,
where he falls in love with the Queen Dido. His bliss is short lived, as
he is told by the gods that he must leave her. Our reading, Book 6,
comes half way through the story. Aeneas’s father has died along the
way, and Aeneas wants to see him. To do that, he must descend into
the underworld—and come back. Very few have ever made the round
trip journey. He is guided by the priestess of Apollo.
The Temple of Apollo built by Daedalus.
Book 6 of The Aeneid gives an elaborate description of
how Daedalus had depicted the story of Theseus, the
minotaur, Ariadne, and his escape from Crete on the
doors.
Aeneas must go through these doors, get advice from
the Sybil, enter the wood sa.
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The Advantages of Budgeting
A budget is a document that forecasts the financial results and financial position of a business for
one or more future periods. At a minimum, a budget contains an estimated income statement that
describes anticipated financial results. A more complex budget also contains an estimated
balance sheet, which contains the entity’s anticipated assets, liabilities, and equity positions at
various points in time in the future.
A prime use of the budget is to serve as a performance baseline for the measurement of actual
results. Budgets may also be linked to bonus plans in order to direct the activities of various
company employees. A budget may also be used for both tax planning and treasury planning.
Despite these valid uses, there are also a number of problems with budgeting that have given rise
to a movement dedicated to the elimination of budgets.
Budgeting has been with us a long time, and is used by nearly every large company. They would
not do so if there were not some perceived advantages to budgeting. These advantages include:
▪ Planning orientation. The process of creating a budget takes management away from its
short-term, day-to-day management of a business and forces it to think longer-term. This is
the chief goal of budgeting, even if management does not succeed in meeting its goals as
outlined in the budget – at least it is thinking about the company’s competitive and
financial position and how to improve it.
▪ Model scenarios. If a company is faced with a number of possible paths down which it can
travel, you can create a set of budgets, each based on different scenarios, to estimate the
financial results of each strategic direction.
▪ Profitability review. It is easy to lose sight of where a company is making most of its
money, during the scramble of day-to-day management. A properly structured budget
points out which aspects of a business generate cash and which ones use it, which forces
management to consider whether it should drop some parts of the business or expand in
others. However, this advantage only applies to a budget sufficiently detailed to describe
profits at the product, product line, or business unit level.
▪ Assumptions review. The budgeting process forces management to think about why the
company is in business, as well as its key assumptions about its business environment. A
periodic re-evaluation of these issues may result in altered assumptions, which may in turn
alter the way in which management decides to operate the business.
▪ Performance evaluations. Senior management can tie bonuses or other incentives to how
employees perform in comparison to the budget. The accounting department then creates
budget versus actual reports to give employees feedback regarding how they are
progressing toward their goals. This approach is most common with financial goals,
though operational goals (such as reducing the scrap rat.
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The adjusted trial balance of Parsons Company at December 31, 2014, includes the following accounts owners capital $15,600, owners drawings $7000, service revenue $37000, salaries and wages expense 16000, insurance expense 2000, rent expense 4000, supplies expense 1500, and depreciation expense 1300. Prepare an income statement for the year
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The adjusted trial balance columns of the worksheet for Alshwer Company, owned by M. Alshwer, are as follows.
ALSHWER COMPANY
Worksheet
For the Year Ended December 31, 2014
Adjusted Trial Balance
Account No.
Account Titles
Dr.
Cr.
101
Cash
5,101
112
Accounts Receivable
10,736
126
Supplies
1,771
130
Prepaid Insurance
2,097
151
Equipment
27,320
152
Accumulated Depreciation—Equipment
5,188
200
Notes Payable
14,900
201
Accounts Payable
6,223
212
Salaries and Wages Payable
2,425
230
Interest Payable
513
301
Owner’s Capital
13,212
306
Owner’s Drawings
7,102
400
Service Revenue
60,529
610
Advertising Expense
8,017
631
Supplies Expense
4,198
711
Depreciation Expense
5,188
722
Insurance Expense
3,140
726
Salaries and Wages Expense
27,807
905
Interest Expense
513
Totals
102,990
102,990
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The activity provides opportunity for student to develop a description of a child with a communicative disorder and to explain how would you meet the needs of that child in their classroom . Students chose one communicative disorders from below. Please read Chapter 13. Use the Internet to search for your chose of disorder or textbook or journal article.
1. Language Disorder 2. Articulation Disorder 3. Fluency Disorder 4. Cognitive Impairment
Write a general description of the child do not use the child real name or parents.
Include the following information: 1. Age and Gender of the Child 2. Reason for Referral
3. Background (city/town/mother/grandmother,etc...)
4. Family (culture/home language of child/work) 5. health and Development
6. School 7. Standardize Assessment ( hypothetical if you do not have test results)
8. Intervention Planning
Student take a look at the searches below they are related to language case study examples : speech pathology case study example, language development case study example, case study of a child with communication disorder and case study- speech and language delay.
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The ability to locate and utilize information relative to Health and.docx
The ability to locate and utilize information relative to Health and Human Services is an important component of many health and human service jobs. Some of the areas included in HHS programs are:
Legal/illegal immigration
Poverty
Violence in the Media
Unemployment
Alcoholism
Gambling
Sexual Harassment
Criminal Justice
Hunger / Homelessness
Mental Illness
Health
As an example, the area of “poverty” was selected from the above list to locate information and relevant reports. To accomplish this, the following was entered into a search engine (such as Google or MSN): “Health and human services and programs dealing with poverty.” One of the 1, 490,000 “hits” was titled: “Poverty Guidelines, Research and Measurement.” Upon searching this website, an elaborate set of focus subtitles was found. Under the heading “Poverty Research Centers” six more references were discovered. As the interest was focused on discovering what information was available, the search centered on “The National Poverty Center.” An examination on this site under that heading yielded numerous areas regarding new research opportunities, informing the policy community, and training for young researchers. Your specific assignment follows. Start with an exploration of what can be found in several of the areas listed above. Then, identify one area and prepare a descriptive post outlining the information in this site. You may want to experiment with various areas in order to understand the unusually large number of resources / programs, but also the kinds of information.
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The Aboriginals of Australia Art DavidsonMy fascination with t.docx
The Aboriginals of Australia
Art Davidson
My fascination with the Aborigines of Australia began when I was a child growing up in a small town in Colorado. I can still remember some of the images that called to me from the pages of an old National Geographic Magazine- a group of naked children playing by a stream, a solitary Aborigine walking across the desert, the eyes of an old man mysterious and calm in his dark face. These people seemed closer to nature that I, free and untroubled. Years later, after moving to Alaska, I came across a sobering account of the Australian Aborigines. Written by an Aboriginal man named J.T. Patton, the article burst my childhood fantasies about a simple, carefree life.
“Our self-respect has been taken away from us, and we have been driven towards extermination,” wrote Patton in an early issue of the Abo Call, the first Aboriginal newspaper, which he founded in 1938. “We have been called a ‘dying race’ but we do not intend to die. We intend to live, and to take our place in the Australian community as citizens with full equality. The white community must be made to realize that we are human beings, the same as themselves. We do not wish to go back to the Stone Age. We don’t want charity from the white people, we want justice. We intend to work steadily for this aim, no matter how many years it may take.”
J.T. Patton, I learned, was founding father of the Aboriginal rights movement. Like Ghandi in India and Martin Luther King, Jr., in the United States, he had been arrested many times for encouraging his people to stand up for their rights. For most of my life, I’ve lived about as far from Australia as anyone could, but in December 1991 a chance encounter brought Patton’s world much closer to me. At a gathering of grass-roots leaders in Paris, someone introduced me to an Aboriginal woman named Pauline Gordon. She was J.T. Patton’s daughter.
“I’m just an ordinary person who goes around talking to people,” she said. “I pop up here and I pop up there. I’m a member of the Bunjalung tribe on the coast of New South Wales. That’s where I come from. My mother’s totem is the possum, my father’s was the goanna lizard. My husband is the dingo. He says I talk too much.”
And Pauline is quite a talker. When we sat down to visit over lunch, she held forth in her warm voice a lively accent on everything from Aborigine Dreamtime to her own grandchildren. Her brother Cecil, she told me, helps run the Aboriginal Legal Services in Sydney. Her sons, Kenny and Shane, play the digeridoo (a musical instrument made from a hollow tree limb that makes a haunting sound) and they are going through their tribe’s tradition of initiation and manhood. I began to sense that, in one way or another, Pauline’s who family was carrying on the work begun by J.T. Patton sixty years before. Our lunch lasted seven and a half hours, a record for me. And by the time we said good bye, Pauline was insisting that I come down to Australia to visit her .
The acronym autism spectrum disorder” (ASD) refers to a con.docx
The acronym “
autism
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No matter who the person is, ASD can affect people all over the world, regardless of ethnicity, culture, or economic status. According to a report, Autism is more common in boys than in females.
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The Acme Corporation uses a periodic inventory system and buys 1,450 units of merchandise in January at $17 each. Acme buys 1,700 units at $16 each in February and 800 units at $18 each in March. The company had no beginning inventory. Acme sells 1,500 units during this quarter. If Acme uses the LIFO method, what is its cost of goods sold for the quarter?
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The 4Cs will help our students attain 21st century skills that will make them productive members of society. Walsh & Sattes (2010 write that practices such as student engagement with discussion, asking quality questions, and collaborating need to be classroom staples for our students to attain those 21st century skills (page 106)
This week focuses on responsible learning and engagement. Discuss the following.
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The 6-D model of national culture
Geert Hofstede, assisted by others, came up with six basic issues that society needs to come to
term with in order to organize itself. These are called dimensions of culture. Each of them has
been expressed on a scale that runs roughly from 0 to 100.
Dimension maps of the world: Individualism
Each dimension has been derived by comparing many, but not all, countries in
the world. The findings can be summarized into six world maps of the distribution
of that dimension. Of course, in reality there can be quite a bit of within-country
variation; these maps should be seen as rough 'climate maps' of culture.
The last two dimensions
The last two dimensions were found later, and in different studies, than the first
four. This is why different countries appear on the world maps. These maps are
taken from the 2007 book "Why we are different and similar" by Michael Minkov.
In our 2010 book they are re-scaled to a 0-100 format. Remember, the numbers
do not really 'mean' anything. They are just there for convenience.
Dimension maps: Long-term Orientation
Culture-Based Negotiation Styles
In an anonymous article, a Japanese writer describes United States negotiators as hard
to understand. One of the reasons for this, we are told, is because "unlike Japanese,
the Americans are not racially or culturally homogenous."[1] While it is difficult to
characterize any national or cultural approach to negotiation, generalizations are
frequently drawn. These generalizations are helpful to the extent that the reader
remembers that they are only guides, not recipes. Any generalization holds true or not
depending on many contextual factors including time, setting, situation, stakes, history
between the parties, nature of the issue, individual preferences, interpersonal dynamics
and mood.
Any generalization will apply to some members of a group some of the time. This is best
seen by considering generalizations about groups to which you belong. If you hear that
women or men tend to negotiate in this way, or Americans in another way, what effect
does it have on you as a member of these groups? If you want to answer, "Actually, it
depends," you are among the majority, for most of us resist easy categorization and
broad classifications. At the same time, it can be useful to back up and attempt to see
ourselves and others from a distance so that the patterns and habits that define what is
"normal" in negotiation can be examined for what they are: culturally bound and
culturally defined common sense.
In this essay, some generalizations about cultural and national approaches to
negotiation will be outlined. These may help negotiators and mediators prepare for
negotiations by raising the kinds of differences that occur across cultures, and pointing
out possible pitfalls of lack of attention to cultural factors. They should be taken as a
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The 820 children at a certain school were asked what they prefer to drink with their lunch, and the following responses were obtained.
Drink
Number
soft drinks
341
milk/chocolate milk
210
water
97
tea
38
other
134
The school only serves milk, chocolate milk, or water with lunch. What is the probability that the first student in line for lunch will be served their preferred beverage with their lunch? Round to two decimal places.
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The Accidental Statesman: General Petraeus and the City of Mosul, Iraq
In late April 2003, Major General David Petraeus and the US Army's 101st Airborne Division entered the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, capital of Nineveh Province. It was less than a month since the start of the US invasion of Iraq. But US troops had already captured Baghdad, dictator Saddam Hussein had fled and, while security was still an overriding concern, the US military was no longer in full battle mode. In Mosul, Petraeus quickly found himself confronting the question: What next?
The city of 1.7 million was a shambles as much from looting as from war. US Marines had just killed 17 Iraqis during a riot. The streets were in chaos, with police and other security forces nowhere to be seen. The city had no electricity, running water or garbage removal. Shops were closed. Most public buildings and factories lay in ruins. There was no administrative or economic infrastructure; ministries in Baghdad which under Saddam had controlled all economic activity were now inoperative. Those who had led the old Iraq had vanished: political leaders, judges, university faculty, teachers, factory managers, ministry directors. The most senior of them were anyway suspect as members of the reviled former ruling Baath, Party.
Addressing these deficiencies was hardly standard military business. But there was no one else to do it. As Petraeus saw it, his task was to provide the building blocks for a new Iraqi society. How, the general wondered, could he and his "Screaming Eagles" --as the division had been known since World War II--reestablish conditions for normal daily life and help create the norms of a democratic society?
Whom could he trust? What was most urgent? What message should he give his troops? What was the trade-offs between security and building bridges to the local population?
Petraeus found himself arbitrating a dizzying array of questions: How could he involve Iraqis in the rebuilding? Should there be elections? If so, who should stand? Could some Baath Party officials retain their jobs? If so, which ones? How and who should pay the thousands of unemployed civil servants?
What about controlling inflation? Should border crossings reopen for trade? How could he re-start the university, open banks, and foster the creation of new businesses? What about the media? Underlying these operational dilemmas lay a deeper uncertainty: could Petraeus establish himself as a leader whose decisions were not only appropriate--but whose style would command the respect of a society not his own?
Run-up to Mosul
When the 101st Airborne first crossed into Iraq from Kuwait on Friday, March 21, 2003, Petraeus had not known that the division would be sent to Mosul. In fact, the entire short war, like its lead-up, had been one of continual adaptation to changing circumstances. Petraeus had gotten word only on February 6 that the division, based at Fort Campbell, Kentucky, would deploy to Kuw.
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The Academic Discourse Community
Rolf Norgaard
The following is excerpted from various sections of Composing Knowledge: Readings for College Writers
Imagine that you enter a parlor. You come late. When you arrive, others have long preceded you, and they are engaged in a
heated discussion, a discussion too heated for them to pause and tell you exactly what it is about. In fact, the discussion had
already begun long before any of them got there, so no one present is qualified to retrace all the steps that had gone before. You
listen for a while, until you decide that you have caught the tenor of the argument; then you put in your oar. Someone answers;
you answer him; another comes to your defense;; another aligns himself against you.…However, the discussion is interminable.
The hour grows later, you must depart. And you do depart, with the discussion still vigorously in progress.
Kenneth Burke, The Philosophy of Literary Form
Entering the Conversation
When you enter the university, or enter advanced course work in your major, you are entering the sort of parlor that Kenneth
Burke describes. While the conversation can certainly be engaging, and the ideas stimulating, the experience of entering a new
setting can be quite unsettling. Who are these folks who are deep in conversation, and what are they getting so worked up
about? On what basis are they taking sides? What does it take to join the conversation and become one of “them”? And what are
the “moves” involved in having a voice in the conversation and in having that voice heard? We would do well to think of the
university as a kind of Burkean parlor or rather a set of overlapping parlors, for no one parlor could ever be sufficient to capture
all of the conversations that go on in various disciplines or on campus.
Although we may think of a college or university as a collection of buildings, or our own education as a list of courses
completed or of expertise gained, the conversational metaphor is actually quite apt. The university is a house of argument. The
university represents an ongoing conversation about questions that are genuinely at issue. An essential part of your college
education is not just learning facts but also learning how to make sense of and join that conversation—a conversation that is not
limited to classrooms but also extends to larger civic spaces.
To enter and take an active role in Burke’s parlor, or in the conversations on your campus and in your disciplines, you’ll need to
figure out the implicit, unstated rules for how people go about talking and arguing. In college, as in the professional world,
much of this conversation occurs in and through written texts. Although there are surely general patterns or guidelines to
academic conversations, you’ll need to alert yourself to the subtle but telling differences between how conversation partners
handle themselves in different conte.
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