Category: Essay

Topic: Law and terror
Write an essay about the right of habeas corpus in the context of the war on terror. Your essay should address the following subtopics:
Explain the historical evolution of habeas corpus, including its English and American traditions. The explanation of its evolution within the American tradition should include the general meaning of the right of habeas corpus in the U.S. Constitution and its relationship to the protection of other civil liberties.
Provide examples from U.S. history of the suspension of habeas corpus and their applicability to the present.
Analyze the relevance of habeas corpus to the contemporary U.S. situation during the war on terror, especially with respect to persons characterized by as enemy combatants or illegal combatants.
Explain the U.S. Supreme Court’s interpretation of the right of habeas corpus with respect to enemy combatants or illegal combatants (i.e., the views of the five justices making up the majority in Boumediene v. Bush as well as the views of the four dissenting justices).
Evaluate a minimum of four perspectives on this topic expressed by justices of the Supreme Court, leaders in other branches of government, and commentators in both the academic and popular media. Your evaluation should consider perspectives on the following topics as they relate to habeas corpus:
The role of the President as Commander-in-Chief.
The role of Congress in determining when habeas corpus can be suspended.
The role of the Supreme Court in protecting civil liberties, including the judicial philosophy which should guide the Court in this role, and
In your evaluation, you should also include your personal philosophy, values, or ideology about the balance between civil liberties and national security in the context of an unending war on terror.
Follow these requirements when writing the Final Paper:
The body of the paper (excluding the title page and reference page) must be at least 1,500 words long.
The paper must start with a short introductory paragraph which includes a clear thesis statement. The thesis statement must tell readers what the essay will demonstrate.
The paper must end with a short paragraph that states a conclusion. The conclusion and thesis must be consistent.
The paper must logically develop the thesis in a way that leads to the conclusion, and that development must be supported by facts, fully explained concepts and assertions, and persuasive reasoning.
The paper must address all subtopics outlined above. At least 20% of the essay must focus on subtopic five, listed above (your evaluation of perspectives on the topic).
Your paper must cite at least three academic articles (excluding the course textbook) and at least four other kinds of sources (e.g., Supreme Court opinions, magazine or newspaper articles, the course textbook, and reliable websites or videos).
Use your own words. While brief quotes from sources may be used, altogether the total amount of quoted text must be less than five percent of the body of your paper.
When you use someone else’s words, they must be enclosed in quotation marks followed by an APA in-text short citation (author, year, and page) to your source. The in-text citation must correspond to a full APA citation for the source on the reference page at the end of the essay.
When you express in your own words someone else’s ideas, arguments or facts, your statement must be followed by an APA in-text short citation (author, year, and page) to your source. The in-text citation must correspond to a full APA citation for the source in the reference page.
The form of the title page, the body pages, and the reference page must comply with APA style. Additionally, the title page must include the course number and name, the instructor’s name, and the date submitted.
The paper must use logical paragraph and sentence transitions, complete and clear sentences, and correct grammar, spelling, and punctuation.
For this paper you need to do research in peer-reviewed journals or other sources that are considered to have reliable information. In addition to your required course text, you need at least seven scholarly sources, three of which must be peer-reviewed journal articles from the Ashford Online Library.
Academic research papers must meet university level standards of quality. What constitutes quality, academic research?
Primary sources written by experts in the field of study
Secondary sources supported by research in primary sources
Credible sources (experts in the area of study)
Relevant research (materials are pertinent to the area of study)
Peer-reviewed journal articles (journal articles reviewed by recognized experts in the relevant field of study).
Educational and government websites (those ending with a web URL suffix of .edu or .gov) may be appropriate in some cases but should be evaluated carefully.

Topic: Criminal Justice
Assignment Objective: Apply conflict management techniques to varying situations
Purpose: The purpose of this assignment is to ensure students have a knowledge base of conflict management skills that are needed when managing and leading an organization.
Assignment Description: What would you do? Think about the different conflict resolution styles we talked about this week. Read each of the below scenarios. Write a 1-2 paragraph response (for each of the three scenarios presented) as to how you would resolve the conflict.
Parameters: Your responses should be submitted in a Word document with proper incorporation of APA 6th edition standards, if needed. Each response should be 1-2 paragraphs in length and you should use 12 point New Times Roman font.
Required components and points:
Response content scenario 1: 10
Response content scenario 2: 10
Response content scenario 3: 10
Length (Required number of pages or words): 10
Grammar, punctuation, and spelling: 10
Total: 50
Performance-Review Conflicts
No employee likes to receive a negative performance review, but giving negative feedback in a review can be unavoidable based on the employee’s own actions during the review period.
Employees may become angry over not receiving expected pay raises, promotions or other performance-related incentives, and may lash out by spreading discontent through gossip and a negative attitude at work. Employees may argue directly with supervisors during performance reviews, creating sensitive situations that require tactful communication.
As manager, what would you do to resolve the conflict?
Leadership Conflicts
Personality clashes between managers and subordinates can cause a range of interpersonal conflicts to arise. Employees may feel bullied or pushed by more authoritarian managers, or may perceive a lack of guidance from more hands-off managers. Managers with type-A personalities may set goals that are too ambitious for their subordinates, setting them up for failure and inevitable conflict.
As manager, what would you do to resolve the conflict?
Discrimination Issues
Discrimination can be a source of heated conflict, potentially ending in legal trouble for a company or its owners. Discriminatory conflicts can arise from personal prejudices on the part of employees or perceptions of mistreatment of employees.
As an example of a discrimination-related conflict, imagine a minority employee in a team setting who feels that he is consistently assigned the most menial work tasks in the group. This employee may begin to harbor resentment against team members and managers, eventually lashing out through decreased productivity or outright verbal conflict.
As manager, what would you do to resolve the conflict?

 

Topic: critical review of the impact of repeated single-metal and multi-metal pollution events on soil quality
this component requires to critically review a scientific journal articles.when critically reviewing the article highlight, where possible, the key components of risk assessment present in the paper: i.e. Hazaed identification , exposure, dose response, risk quantification and risk management.
the critical assessment should include statements regarding quality and appropriateness of method, results and conclusion.
the article link : http://ac.els-cdn.com.ezproxy.mmu.ac.uk/S0045653514006717/1-s2.0-S0045653514006717-main.pdf?_tid=5bcfe5c2-5311-11e4-b707-00000aab0f01&acdnat=1413229654_3537b8a2f13495250a60c2e8aab02faa reference:
Burges A, Epelde L, Garbisu C. (2015) Impact of repeated single-metal and multi-metal pollution events on soil quality. Chemosphere, 120, 8–15.

 

Chapter Eleven: Employee and Management Development
Find a recent article (no more than a year old) that identifies KSAs that will be critical for managers in the immediate future. PLEASE DO NOT USE WEBSITES. Provide a summary of the article and discuss its management development implications in your discussion forum.
TIPS: When you discuss the KSAs, please describe each KSA and write how they impact in organizations and management development.
Textbook can be viewed at the following website:
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Chapter Ten: Key Areas of Organizational Training
Chapter Eleven: Employee and Management Development

Topic: M7 Journal Assignment
In your final journal assignment, create a final paper of 8-10 pages in APA style using at least 6 scholarly references. You can make use of information from your journal entries and discussions (citing yourself), or discussions provided by others in the course (citing that author) as additional sources. You may also have created an approved multi-media project.
Make this your own. You will already have demonstrated in class that you understand Learning Styles. This is your opportunity to demonstrate to yourself that they matter to you, and how they matter to you.
Heres one of my journal assaignments
I’m taking this course because; I’m pursuing a career as a board of education teacher. One of the biggest challenges within a classroom would be, getting kids to listen and keeping their attention. Ones Teaching styles must be flexible and adaptable in order to accommodate the learning style of Students. I’m hoping by the end of this course I would be able to distinguish the difference those type of style and provide a better teaching environment for my teachers. Every Human being in this world is unique and each individual has different ways in ways in which they learn. Learning styles have been formulated over the years to help is recognize the way we approach learning and methods we use to gain knowledge.
Based on the learning style assessment in module 1. I strongly agree that my strongest learning style is visual style, followed by Kinesthetic. I’ve noticed that I usually sit in front of the classroom because it helps me concentrate on what I’m doing and the lesson, and it helps me avoid getting distracted by sights of activities going on around me. I tend to lose focus when there are other things going on around me. I have learned a lot about myself and how to study from reading the first module that I read in the ‘Introduction to Learning Styles’. Before I never realize how many different types of learning styles there were. When listening to lectures, I prefer to take notes for the sake of moving my hands. Not only does this keeps me focus but writing helps me understand and process the “Lecture” better. Also, when given an assignment or even a passage to read I like to scan the material first, and then focus in on the details to get the big picture.
According to the text, a person with Bodily-kinsthetic intelligence their sense is usually well developed, and they enjoy physical challenges and pursuits. These learners learn best by doing, moving and acting things out(Silver, Strong, and Perini p 8). This gave me a better understanding of how my sensory processes are influenced by my environment.
“So Each May Learn”, Silver, Strong, and Perini, ASCD, 2000
Heres another journal entry:
The learning style I wanted to use for my journal is kolbs model of learning. Psychologist David Kolb first outlined his theory of learning styles in 1984. He believed that our individual learning styles Emerge due to our genetics, life experiences, and the demands of our current environment. As I read more about his experiential theory, The learning styles described by Kolb are based upon two major dimensions: Active/reflective and abstract/concrete. The four learning styles that Kolb identified are: Divergers, Converters, Assimilators, Accomodators.
After determing, the learning style that best fits me from the readings through the module and additional websites( Changingminds.org), I have concluded that The “Accomodator” suits me best because I have a hands-on approach, with a strong preference for doing rather than thinking. I do at times, catch myself asking ‘ what if ?’ And ‘why not? to support my action-first approach. I also tend to be a great risk- taker. I feel I’m good at thinking on my feet and changing my plan spontaneously in response to new information.
What I’ve learn in comparison to Jungian adult learning style inventory, is that, I’m a Intuitive-Feeling learner. My assessment showed that I prefer to work in short sessions, rather than finish a task all at once. I see that my work is sometimes scattered and may look chaotic to the thinking types but it works for me when I often engage in a number of activities at the same time and I move from one to the other according to where my interest takes me. Often, I start more projects than I can finish. The assessment seemed to be pretty accurate to my learning style.
Through my assessment I realized that I was that I am a Kinesthetic learner and I’m able to process information by muscle movements and experience that are hands-on. Which made sense to me because I am aware that I am also a visual learner, when I am shown how to do something I catch on quickly .
The things I do now in studying that are within the guidelines includes: read the book chapters and highlight or even sometimes I would read the end of the book to see if it’s necessary to read the whole thing. Before I never really understood the different ways I studied, I just knew what seemed to work. I now understand why those techniques were successful. Now that I am know that I am a kinesthic learner, and have bodily kinesthic intelligence, I look forward to implementing the newly learned studying techniques.
Source
https://changingminds.org/explanations/learning/kolb_learning.html
Silver et al.: So Each May Learn: Integrating Learning Styles and Multiple Intelligences
Heres a discussion I submitted:
I choose to focus on comparing and contrasting ‘The African Indigenous way of knowing’ and ‘The Maori Indigenous way of knowing’. While reading page 117 in ‘Merrian and Associates, 2007’ text, I became interested in the The African tradition. The text explained how the African tribe had to observe, imitate, and continuously practice what was being taught. They also focus on several ways of providing learning/knowledge through out their community. First, It is the responsibility for the elders to share their knowledge they have acquired throughout the years to the young, by means of oral instructions and practical activities. Such as, Skills like carving, clay working, and home management(woman only learned this). This is how their community will flourish. In the textbook , they say a major principle the Africans believed in was that knowledge is to “live usefully And happily with ones family, with ones community one’s society, and the sports of one’s ancestors”( Merriam et. Al. 2007, pg 235). Africans generally have deep and ingrained respect for the elders they’re respected, obeyed and considered a source of wisdom. Second, they feel knowledge is stored in the cultural and physical belief, taboos, folklore and myths and an individual’s experiences.
The Maori way of learning drew a similar resemblance with the Africans. The Maori learning is a lifelong and centralized, as they feel Knowledge is to be a collective unit in society. Extended families are a fundamental part of living and learning.
While reading page 80 in the ‘Merrian and Associates, 2007’ text, I read how ‘The Maori Indigenous way of Knowing’ explained how the Maori tribe members would get together formally. They would get together, dine, discuss issues, and collaborate on the knowledge that they were obtaining. Both male and female, played separate roles. The males were to share stories and the females would be in charge of the dining and the kitchen area. The males were taught oratory skills and the females were taught hospitality skills. This is a great example of how similar the African tribe is to the Maori tribe, men and woman learn separate roles that are similar to both tribes.
If I were to select a learning style, I would go with the African way. I feel that because of my learning style (visual/kinsthic) I would be a great hunter and be extremely knowledgeable about my environment and land. I consider myself to be hands on and can see myself dealing with home management. I also can see my family following this way of learning because my wife is a hard working teacher but still is dedicated to taking care of our home. She loves to cook and be a hostess. The difference in our roles as male and female from the African and Maori way is that we both do our parts cleaning the home, washing cloths, washing dishes, etc.
The following are required texts for this course:
•Merriam, S. and Associates, Non-Western Perspectives on Learning and Knowing. Malabar, Florida: Krieger Publishing
•Silver, F. H., Strong, R. W., Perini, M.J., So Each May Learn: Integrating Learning Styles and Multiple Intelligences. Alexander, VA: ASCD.
•Sprenger, M., Differentiation Through Learning Styles and Memory. Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin Press.
•Jensen, E., Brain Based Education: The New Science of Teaching and Training. (revised edition) San Diego, CA: The Brain Store.
•Celli Sarasin, L., Learning Style Perspectives: Impact in the Classroom. Madison, WI: Atwood Publishing.

Topic: An analytic paper on the sociology of food.
The main focus of the paper is going to compare the United State’s economic system and other countries’ economic system as to why Americans cannot make a comfortable living working in the fast food industry, but people in other countries, like Australia, can. The paper must have a thesis (it must make an argument). The paper must be theoretically grounded, methodologically sound, and reflective of Mill’s “sociological imagination” and Schwalbe’s “sociological mindfulness.” Use ASA format, standard 1-inch margins on all four sides, and a standard 12-point, Times New Roman font. Must have 12 scholarly sources, at least 6 of which must be articles from peer-reviewed academic journals. Paper must be 13 pages (not including the title and reference pages).

Topic: READING QUIZ
In an short essay (at least 250 words, not too much more than 500, please J) first give a clear and comprehensive account of what Brooks understands to be the formal unity of a work.
Second, itemize all those elements that he downplays/deemphasizes and/or rejects….on account of their allegedly not being essential to the meaning of a work of literature, i.e. all those that don’t immediately pertain to its formal unity. Please be cautious in your reading, e.g. just because Brooks acknowledges the existence or essentiality of something does not mean that he thinks it is fundamental to the consideration of the formalist critic.
Third, reflect on which downplayed element (s) (religion, biography, historical context, subjective process, etc. ) that you think Brooks may have neglected most. If possible give a contemporary reference and/or draw the comparison to Aristotle.
(The Wikipedia article on Brooks may be helpful to you. And one heads up: Lionel Trilling, who is mentioned, is another literary critic of the first half of the twentieth century who is close to Brooks intellectually in significant ways, with the exception of his interest in psychoanalysis and historical consciousness [Freud and Spengler]).
Please cite the text and edit your work as you will be graded for both FORM and CONTENT. Be sure your upload to turnitin.com includes your name. Thanks J
This quiz is worth 100 points, but outstanding work will earn extra-credit!

Topic: Conquest of Mexico Essay
Drawing on the primary sources in ‘Victors and Vanquished’, (and not Schwart’z own commentary), write an essay that explains the relative strength of words and actions in the establishment of Spanish hegemony during the conquest. The text book is titles ‘Victor and Vanquished’ and is by Stuart B. Schwartz.
You should support your argument with specific examples and specific information, including references to primary sources in the ‘Victors and Vanquished’ anthology. In developing your argument, you must draw on one or both of the essays by Jeremy Adelman and William Roseberry.
There are two objectives for this essay: 1) to develop an argument about hegemony in the conquest of Mexico, and 2) to learn to evaluate primary sources that frequently contradict themselves in away that invites you to make an interpretation.

10)Beowulf and Cuchulain from cuchulainn’s Boyhood Deeds
The characters Beowulf and Cuchulainn uchulainn’s Boyhood Deeds dramatize various characteristics of heroism. Although one work is an Anglo-Saxon epic, while the other arises from the mists of Celtic legend, the two heroes embody similar traits which comprise the Anglo-Saxon and the Celtic heroic ideals. Therefore, in a well-written, well-developed two to three page paper, please compare the two heroes, selecting three aspects which the two share.
-INSTRUCTIONS:
In your introductory paragraph, remember to introduce your reader to your topic, each sentence becoming more and more narrow and specific to arrive at the thesis sentence, the last sentence of the introductory paragraph. Then fully develop with adequate supporting quotes each point go the thesis in each subsequent paragraph.

The effect of leptin and resistin on brain inflammation
The effect of leptin and resistin on brain inflammation
Adipokines ( leptin and resistin) can affect the inflammatory status in the brain. There is strong association between leptin and brain inflammation. Leptin can cause inflammatory changes in the CNS.
The microglia Immune cells in the brain
Microglia is the first line of immune system in the brain. Microglia reacts to injury and diseases of the brain by becoming morphologically and functionally activated.
(It has been suggested that microglia, a type of glial cells in the central nervous system, play various important roles in normal and pathologic brains. In this article, we discussed the association or roles of microglia in injury and in brain diseases such as Alzheimer’s disease, AIDS dementia complex, multiple sclerosis and ischemia. Further-more, microglia-derived cytotoxic products and other secretory factors were summarized. In addition to the pathological aspects, secretory factors that showed neurotrophic effects were described with special reference to their physiological significance in the neuronal growth, neuronal function and regeneration processes. Accumulated evidence suggests that microglia are associated with not only brain pathology but also normal physiology in the brain.)
The role of inflammatory markers (TNF-alpha and IL10) in the brain inflammation caused by leptin and resistin
Leptin plays an important role in the immune response to pathogens through the stimulation of brain IL-1b and TNF- a.
Obesity and high fat diet cause brain inflammation
Obesity is now generally considered a chronic low-grade inflammatory state in the brain.
Please paraphrase this C-fos is a marker for neuronal activity
Neural activity in the CNS occurs in response to physiological stimuli and it has been demonstrated that c-Fos protein is a reliable marker for CNS neural activation. It is acknowledged that c-Fos act as marker for acute activated neurons in the CNS, rather than expression of chronically activated neurons. Therefore, c-Fos protein helps to demonstrate the subpopulation of activated neurons in the CNS . The benefits of using c-Fos protein is the availability of antibodies to this particular protein, which helpful since we can use standard immunohistochemistry
please make sure all the writing around the leptin and resistin cause brain inflammation microglia

 

Topic: Public-Health Informatics
Numerous opportunities are available to facilitate public health informatics’ impact on public health surveillance (Bailey, Hoyt & Yoshihasi, 2012, page 426). An important opportunity is the increasing adoption of EHRs and health information exchange (HIE) systems. The demonstration of meaningful use of EHRs, as articulated in the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) final rule, includes three public health requirements: electronic submission to public health agencies of immunization registry data, reportable laboratory results data, and syndromic surveillance data.
EHR and HIE systems collate information about individual patients from different information systems (e.g., registration, clinical record, laboratory, and imaging) and through information exchange or aggregation from across different provider entities. Adoption of the systems is incentivized and facilitated by the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act in the United States. Enacted as part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) of 2009 (US. Congress, 2009), the HITECH act authorized Medicaid and Medicare financial incentives for providers to adopt and use EHRs and authorized funding for the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) to encourage health IT adoption, aid in standard-setting, build the workforce, and support state- and regional-level development of HIE (Savel, 2014, pp 19).
The goal of this funding has been to modernize the health system by promoting and expanding the adoption of health information technology by 2014. Consequently, opportunities are available to facilitate public health informatics’ impact on public health surveillance. For example, hospitals now have an economic incentive to electronically transmit reportable laboratory results to public health agencies (electronic laboratory reporting). This improves the speed and ascertainment completeness of reporting and affects the surveillance work flow and work load. As the semantics and the syntax of such electronic reports become more widely adopted, such information flow more easily between computer applications and systems (i.e., interoperability). This interoperability creates the potential to eliminate data-reentry into case management applications, which improves efficiency while reducing resource requirements and data-entry errors. As clinicians and public health workers increasingly work in electronic environments using the same types of interoperable data, the opportunity for bidirectional communication around cases or clusters of conditions also increases.
References
Bailey, N., Hoyt, R. E., and Yoshihasi, A. (Eds.). (2012). Health Informatics: A Practical Guide for Healthcare and Information Technology Professionals. (5th ed.).
Savel, Thomas G. “The Role of Public Health Informatics in Enhancing Public Health Surveillance.” Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 27 July 2012. Web. 10 Oct. 2014.
US. Congress (2009). American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.
Student 2:
The spread of consumer health informatics (CHI) has been tailored around managing health issues. The trend of widespread adoption of electronic health records (EHR) and increasing consumer interests in health informatics is contingent upon the widespread availability of internet, the adoption of home broadband connection, and the increase of wireless/mobile internet access (Bailey, Hoyt and Yoshihashi, 2011). Internet access has made health informatics more accessible for people to gain knowledge of medicine information. The internet has allowed the public to log onto various sites from their home, a coffee shop, and their phone to seek information regarding medical symptoms and treatments. “56% of internet users look online about certain medical treatment or procedure while 44% of internet users look online for information about doctors or other health professionals (Bailey et al, 2011).” The internet has definitely empowered people with the ability to
stay informed.
CHI has had a significant impact on public health informatics, but the field is still new and subject to critiques for effectiveness. CHI provides applications that will reach consumers at a lower cost and perform some functions that were once only available by humans. Bailey et al (2011) states that CHI applications have an impact on health outcomes by three significant elements: individual tailoring, personalization and behavioral feedback. Individual tailoring builds knowledge of what intervention is necessary; personalization designs the intervention; and behavioral feedback provides consumers with information about their wellbeing and intervention progression (Bailey et al, 2011).
The utility and dynamics of CHI have created a support system for better health outcomes and behaviors. Bailey et al (2011) states that public health informatics is “the systematic application of information and computer science and technology to public health practice, research and learning.” Public health networks and geographic information systems are just a bridge that helps public health informatics more successful in studying the health of large populations. The popularity of programs such as Meaningful Use will help reporting public health informatics gain momentum in developing a standard in the way electronic information is exchanged. The HITECH Act and the Affordable Care Act are efforts that will affect public health in an important way by increasing care coordination in a positive way to ensure local and global health organizations are succinct in monitoring preventable chronic diseases.
References
Bailey, N., Hoyt, R. E., and Yoshihasi, A. (Eds.). (2012). Health Informatics: A Practical Guide for Healthcare and Information Technology Professionals. (5th ed.).