Policy Position Papers
You will write a position paper on a specific public policy or current management issue of your choosing. The paper length is 6-8 pages, double-spaced (not including appendices). You can write on any issue related to one of the seven policy chapter (9-15), but if it is one that was specifically covered in class or in Peters American Public Policy: Promise and Performance, then it needs to be something more specific. It is also much easier to write on something narrow and specific. For instance, instead of something broad like health policy, it could be a position paper on childhood obesity or something even more specific like nutrition policy in schools. You will upload the papers on Blackboard and bring a hard copy to class.
Any policy issue related to these chapters may be addressed in a policy position paper. A policy position paper addresses a social problem facing policy-makers. The objective of a policy position paper is to bring the reader round to your way of thinking so the argument needs to be clear, succinct and persuasive, backed up with appropriate evidence.
A policy position paper should summarize the proposals for which you wish to advocate. In the real world it is based on the research you have undertaken and where you provide detailed evidence for your arguments. Bear in mind that the content will depend on the point at which the policy has reached in the policy formulation process. If a public policy already exists, and you want to change it, then you will need to look at the policy, and its impact. If it is a proposal for a new public policy, then you need to have some more background information so you can propose policy solutions.
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Policy position papers
Any topic (writer’s choice)
In Chapter 17 of the Fennelly text, the author discusses the two main categories of managing security risks. The core groups include Mandatory practices (required regulatory standards) and Benchmark (minimum standards used) practices.
For this discussion:
1.) Provide an example of how an organization or business used a Mandatory practice, which led to the prevention of, or mitigated risks and or a threat.
2.) Provide an example of a business or organization that used a Benchmark practice which may have led to a critical incident or increased the risk associated with a potential threat.
The Communist Manifesto
Just a 3 pages reaction paper on the Communist Manifesto. Just need to write your reaction to the book and have a thesis for your reaction
this is a link to the book if you need it.
https://www.google.com/books/edition/Manifesto_of_the_Communist_Party/phdCAQAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&printsec=frontcover
July 10th, 2020 
APA (edition "APA 6"), Business and Management 
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ALA (E) Current Events Applied Learning Assignment (ALA) Graduate
Each student is to research a current event that is related to one or more of the Course Learning Outcomes (CLO) listed in your syllabus. You should use the Internet; electronic news agencies or journals to research a current event should be 1 to 3 years old. An analysis should be conducted on your researched current event (related to one or more CLOs). Each student must create PowerPoint slide(s) and should include:
A summary of the event
A brief statement about the relationship of the current event to the CLO(s)
As a manager, how would apply what you have learned to an organization
Include an industry example demonstrating the application of your researched current event
ABOUT Organizational Behavior
utilizing relevant case laws in a hypothetical
Instructions
Please read the following scenario carefully. After you identify the facts, respond to the questions at the end of the scenario. Please make sure to address all parts of the protocol presented. Additionally, do not forget to utilize relevant case law to justify and explain your arguments.
Hypothetical
The year is 2029 and a new strain of a deadly airborne coronavirus, COVID-29, has appeared throughout the world. In the first month after COVID-29 reaches the United States an estimated 50,000 people have died. An additional 500,000 people are infected and are inundating hospitals throughout the country seeking treatment.
Persons infected by COVID-29 can be effectively treated, with an antiviral drug called Curasin, so long as they receive the drug within 36 hours of first appearance of symptoms. Moreover, the same company that manufactures Curasin has announced the development of a COVID-29 vaccine that, once administered, protects the person vaccinated for a ten-year period. The vaccine appears to be highly effective for all segments of the population.
There are two significant problems, however, with implementing an immediate vaccination program for the entire U.S. population. First, because the vaccine is new and because it is both expensive and time-consuming to produce, there are currently only 5 million doses of the vaccine available. Despite the intention of the federal government to drastically ramp up production of the vaccine, it is anticipated that for at least the next year, no more than 10 million doses of the vaccine can be produced every month. The upshot is that, optimistically, only 40 to 50 percent of the United States residents can be effectively vaccinated within the year.
Second, it appears that not all populations are similarly vulnerable to COVID-29. For reasons that scientists cannot yet fully explain, African Americans are 15% more likely to die from the virus than whites. Latinx also seem to have a somewhat higher mortality rate than whites, although given the variation in racial make-up within the latinx population, the evidence with respect to their enhanced vulnerability is less conclusive.
Differences in mortality rates exist between males and females as well. It appears that males are 18% more likely to die from the virus than are females.
Children under the age of 13 are 25% more vulnerable to the virus than adults. The elderly are also more vulnerable to the virus than the general population, although the differences between old persons and young persons appear to correspond directly to the general health of the individual involved.
In light of this ongoing crisis, the White House, in consultation with the Center for Disease Control (the CDC), has decided to develop a strict protocol for dispensing the Curasin vaccine. The draft protocol is as follows:
1) The CDCs first priority will be to vaccinate all children under the age of 13, starting with those living in densely populated metropolitan areas that so far have been the epicenter of virus transmission, and fanning outward to children living in less populated, rural areas,
2) The CDCs second priority will be to vaccinate all adult males under the age of 50, again starting with males living in densely populated areas and fanning out to males living in less populated, rural areas.
3) The CDCs third priority will be to vaccinate all adult African American females under the age of 50, with the same geographical prioritization.
4) The CDCs fourth priority will be to vaccinate all remaining adult females under the age of 50, with the same geographical prioritization.
5) All remaining adult U.S. citizens will then be vaccinated, starting with 50-year-old adults and advancing progressively up the age ladder.
6) Only after all U.S. citizens have been vaccinated will the CDC vaccinate legal resident non-citizens, using the same demographic protocol as has been developed for U.S. citizens. Undocumented immigrants will receive the vaccine only after all other segments of the population have been immunized and supplies of the vaccine have stabilized.
7) Throughout the administration of this vaccination protocol, the Curasin antiviral (of which there is an ample supply) will continue to be made available to all persons infected by COVID-29 based solely on the judgment of on-the-scene medical personnel, and without regard to age, gender, geography, or citizenship.
You are the Assistant to White House Counsel and are asked to prepare a memorandum for the President. Specifically, the President wants to know whether any of the provisions of the proposed protocol violate the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment (recall that, through a process of reverse incorporation, the Equal Protection applies to the federal government as well as the states).
Please make sure to support all conclusions with reasoning and, where possible, case law. In addition, please make sure to examine both sides of any argument you make, and feel free to suggest changes (addition, removal or modification of provisions) to the protocol that will cure it of potential constitutional problems.
July 10th, 2020 English and Literature, Not applicable Comments Off on Analysis of the conclusion of the book “Nickel and Dimed” Analysis of the conclusion of the book “Nickel and Dimed”
At the conclusion of Nickel and Dimed, Barbara Ehrenreich offers the following explanation of what she thinks our proper response to her depiction of minimum wage work should be:
Guilt, you may be thinking warily. Isn’t that what we’re supposed to feel? But guilt doesn’t go anywhere near far enough; the appropriate emotion is shame — shame at our own dependency, in this case, on the underpaid labor of others. When someone works for less pay than she can live on — when, for example, she goes hungry so that you can eat more cheaply and conveniently — then she has made a great sacrifice for you, she has made you a gift of some part of her abilities, her health, and her life. The “working poor,” as they are approvingly termed, are in fact the major philanthropists of our society. They neglect their own children so that the children of others will be cared for; they live in substandard housing so that other homes will be shiny and perfect; they endure privation so that inflation will be low and stock prices high. To be a member of the working poor is to be an anonymous donor, a nameless benefactor; to everyone else.
First, explore the specific reasons Ehrenreich offers readers for why they should feel “shameful.” Why, in her view, is this the appropriate response for us to have when we are shown the lives of the underclass? And where specifically in the passage above do you find evidence of her argument? Next, evaluate how compelling or convincing you think this claim is. Do you agree? Why or why not? And finally, compare Ehrenreichs argument to another writer we read this semester, one whose views about money, social class and/or success differ from those Ehrenreich is expressing above. Which of these views do you find more appealing or convincing, and why?
JavaScript lab
Write JavaScript Programs to do the following:(jsps2)
(1) Create a change-counting game that gets the user to enter the number of coins required to make exactly one dollar. The program should prompt the user to enter the number of pennies, nickels, dimes, and quarters. If the total value of the coins entered is equal to one dollar, the program should congratulate the user for winning the game. Otherwise, the program should display a message indicating whether the amount entered was more than or less than one dollar.
(2) A software company sells a package that retails for $100. Quantity discounts are given according to the following table:
Quantity Discount
1019 10%
2049 20%
5099 30%
100+ 40%
Write a program that asks the user to enter the number of packages purchased. The program should then display the amount of the discount (if any) and the total amount of the purchase after the discount.
(3) Write a program that asks the user to enter a number of seconds and works as follows:
There are 60 seconds in a minute. If the number of seconds entered by the user is greater than or equal to 60, the program should display the number of minutes in that many seconds.
There are 3,600 seconds in an hour. If the number of seconds entered by the user is greater than or equal to 3,600, the program should display the number of hours in that many seconds.
There are 86,400 seconds in a day. If the number of seconds entered by the user is greater than or equal to 86,400, the program should display the number of days in that many seconds.
(4) The colors red, blue, and yellow are known as the primary colors because they cannot be made by mixing other colors. When you mix two primary colors, you get a secondary color, as shown here:
When you mix red and blue, you get purple.
When you mix red and yellow, you get orange.
When you mix blue and yellow, you get green.
Design a program that prompts the user to enter the names of two primary colors to mix. If the user enters anything other than red, blue, or yellow, the program should display an error message. Otherwise, the program should display the name of the secondary color that results.
Write JavaScript programs to do the following:(jsps4)
(1) A county collects property taxes on the assessment value of property, which is 60 percent of the propertys actual value. For example, if an acre of land is valued at $10,000, its assessment value is $6,000. The property tax is then 72 for each $100 of the assessment value. The tax for the acre assessed at $6,000 will be $38.40. Write a function that accepts the actual value of a piece of property and displays the assessment value and property tax.
(2) Suppose you deposit a certain amount of money into a savings account that earns compound monthly interest, and you want to calculate you will have after a specific amount number of months. The formula is:
F = P * (1 + i)t
Where the terms in the formula are as follows:
F is the future value of the account after the specified amount of time.
P is the present value, or the amount that you want deposit.
i is the monthly interest rate.
t is the number of months that you plan to let the money sit in the account.
Write a function called futureValue() that takes on three arguments: P, i and t which returns the future value.
(3) Write a program that asks the user to enter five test scores. The program should display letter grade for each score and the average test score. Write the following functions in the program:
calcAverageThis function should accept five test scores as arguments and return the average of the scores.
determineGradeThis function should accept a test score as an argument and return a letter grade for the score based on the following grading scale:
Score Letter Grade
90100 A
8089 B
7079 C
6069 D
Below 60 F
(4) A painting company has determined that for every 112 square feet of wall space, one gallon of paint and eight hours of labor will be required. The company charges $35.00 per hour for labor and $15.00 for a gallon of paint. Write a function that takes in the number of square feet of wall space and displays the following data:
The number of gallons of paint required
The hours of labor required
The cost of the paint
The labor charges
The total cost of the paint job
JavaScript Lab
Write JavaScript Programs to do the following:(jsps2)
(1) Create a change-counting game that gets the user to enter the number of coins required to make exactly one dollar. The program should prompt the user to enter the number of pennies, nickels, dimes, and quarters. If the total value of the coins entered is equal to one dollar, the program should congratulate the user for winning the game. Otherwise, the program should display a message indicating whether the amount entered was more than or less than one dollar.
(2) A software company sells a package that retails for $100. Quantity discounts are given according to the following table:
Quantity Discount
1019 10%
2049 20%
5099 30%
100+ 40%
Write a program that asks the user to enter the number of packages purchased. The program should then display the amount of the discount (if any) and the total amount of the purchase after the discount.
(3) Write a program that asks the user to enter a number of seconds and works as follows:
There are 60 seconds in a minute. If the number of seconds entered by the user is greater than or equal to 60, the program should display the number of minutes in that many seconds.
There are 3,600 seconds in an hour. If the number of seconds entered by the user is greater than or equal to 3,600, the program should display the number of hours in that many seconds.
There are 86,400 seconds in a day. If the number of seconds entered by the user is greater than or equal to 86,400, the program should display the number of days in that many seconds.
(4) The colors red, blue, and yellow are known as the primary colors because they cannot be made by mixing other colors. When you mix two primary colors, you get a secondary color, as shown here:
When you mix red and blue, you get purple.
When you mix red and yellow, you get orange.
When you mix blue and yellow, you get green.
Design a program that prompts the user to enter the names of two primary colors to mix. If the user enters anything other than red, blue, or yellow, the program should display an error message. Otherwise, the program should display the name of the secondary color that results.
Write JavaScript programs to do the following:(jsps4)
(1) A county collects property taxes on the assessment value of property, which is 60 percent of the propertys actual value. For example, if an acre of land is valued at $10,000, its assessment value is $6,000. The property tax is then 72 for each $100 of the assessment value. The tax for the acre assessed at $6,000 will be $38.40. Write a function that accepts the actual value of a piece of property and displays the assessment value and property tax.
(2) Suppose you deposit a certain amount of money into a savings account that earns compound monthly interest, and you want to calculate you will have after a specific amount number of months. The formula is:
F = P * (1 + i)t
Where the terms in the formula are as follows:
F is the future value of the account after the specified amount of time.
P is the present value, or the amount that you want deposit.
i is the monthly interest rate.
t is the number of months that you plan to let the money sit in the account.
Write a function called futureValue() that takes on three arguments: P, i and t which returns the future value.
(3) Write a program that asks the user to enter five test scores. The program should display letter grade for each score and the average test score. Write the following functions in the program:
calcAverageThis function should accept five test scores as arguments and return the average of the scores.
determineGradeThis function should accept a test score as an argument and return a letter grade for the score based on the following grading scale:
Score Letter Grade
90100 A
8089 B
7079 C
6069 D
Below 60 F
(4) A painting company has determined that for every 112 square feet of wall space, one gallon of paint and eight hours of labor will be required. The company charges $35.00 per hour for labor and $15.00 for a gallon of paint. Write a function that takes in the number of square feet of wall space and displays the following data:
The number of gallons of paint required
The hours of labor required
The cost of the paint
The labor charges
The total cost of the paint job
July 10th, 2020 APA (edition "APA 7"), Law Comments Off on recruiting women and minorities into law enforcement recruiting women and minorities into law enforcement
research paper on a current issue facing law enforcement leaders, utilizing at least 8 scholarly references, and written in APA Style. The paper should have 8-10 pages of content, not including the title page, abstract, and reference page.
Note that references used for your research need to be peer-reviewed/scholarly journals. These journals typically have the following characteristics:
1. articles are reviewed by a panel of experts before they are accepted for publication;
2. articles are written by a scholar or specialist in the field;
3. articles report on original research or experimentation;
4. are often published by professional associations;
5. utilize terminology associated with the discipline.
Any topic (writer’s choice)
Use Rawls thought experiment, the Original position to come up with 4 rules for the home and 4 rules for society that will ensure fairness and equality of opportunity in the home and society. Provide a good explanation for each rule and why you think each rule will ensure justice either in the home or society.