Category: Essay Help

It is late and 3-year-old Betty is alone in her room. Her parents had just put her to bed not 10 minutes earlier. Her parents are quietly watching television downstairs. Betty begins to cry and after a short time the crying turns into more screaming than crying. Her parents hear her crying and screaming and run up to her room to see what is the matter. Her mother holds Betty in her arms and tells her she is alright. She stops after a few minutes, but when her parents leave her room, she starts crying again. Her father thought that it may be good to bring her down with them and let her lay on the couch while they watch television. Betty is quiet for the rest of the evening, falling asleep on the couch. Betty continues to cry each night for a week and each time her parents take her down to the living room with them until they go to bed or when she falls asleep. Betty’s parents are concerned that she will be unable to sleep in her room anymore. Learning (i.e., operant conditioning) has taken place for Betty and her parents.

Explain how learning has taken place.
If Betty’s parents asked you for advice (in operant conditioning terms) on how to get Betty to stay in her room and not cry, what would you tell them?

This assignment will give you the opportunity to choose an article, and then write about the ethical implications and the impact of the events that are described.

Write a paper in which you:

Analyze the questions associated with your chosen article and discuss them using concepts you learned in this course.
Explain your rationale for each of your answers to your chosen article with supporting evidence.

Article Questions:

What ideals, effects, and consequences are at stake?
Have any moral rights been violated?
What would a Utilitarian recommend?
What would a Kantian recommend?

Describe USA v. Bonds decision from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

The Federal Reserve offers to the general public numerous publications available at the website of the Federal Reserve Board here.

The Federal Reserve Board testimonies, press releases, monetary policy reports, the Beige Book, and a variety of other publications offer a detailed assessment of current economic activity, financial markets, and the monetary policy tools used to promote economic activity and preserve price stability.

Go to the website of the Federal Reserve Board at www.federalreserve.gov and find the section describing monetary policy tools. Explore conventional and non-conventional tools of monetary policy.

Write an eight to ten (8-10) page paper:

Evaluate the role and effectiveness of the Federal Reserve in stabilizing the economy since the 2007-2009 recession and its continued impact on the current state of the economy:

Use data from the Fed publications and other sources to support all of your positions.

In your discussion make sure that you cover:

The monetary policy tools.
The ways in which the Federal Reserve adjusted the tools in response to the financial crisis of 20072009.
Based on your research, did the financial crisis of 2007-2009 compromise the independence of the Federal Reserve?
The strengths and weaknesses of using monetary policy versus fiscal policy when promoting economic activity and preserving price stability.
Based on your research, should the Fed change some of its current monetary policy targets, such as the 2-percent inflation target?

Your topic should be both substantive and defensible. That means that what you are writing about is meaningful and that you can argue a position.

As you write, consider the following questions to guide you. Some of these you may need to answer explicitly in your paper, while others may only help you in the pre-writing phase. I am not grading you based on these being explicitly answered in your paper and these should not be a template for your papers format.

1. Why is this question important? Who benefits from this knowledge?

2. What style(s) of popular music are most impacted by what you are studying? Are certain musicians/fans/people more impacted than others and why?

3. What is musically important to your discussion? Think about the terms and concepts discussed in class to help answer your research question.

4. What non-musical concepts are important to your argument?

*Your final bibliography MUST ALSO INCLUDE all recordings you mention in your paper. Cite the original album and where you found it (Youtube, Spotify, etc). Many times, musicians record a piece more than once, and I need to know which recording youre talking about. This deadline only concerns written sources.

@Wikipedia is awesome, but it does not belong in your bibliography. Frequently those articles are written by experts and they include a lot of good sources in their bibliography. The sources cited on Wikipedia DO belong in your bibliography! Wikipedia is a great starting point for your research, but it must go farther.

Formatting:

Papers should be in Times New Roman, 12-point font, with margins a MAXIMUM of 1 and spacing a MAXIMUM of 1.5. There should be no spaces between your paragraphs. Citations can be in any style you choose so long as you are consistent (I suggest Chicago).

CDC Epi Info 7.2 Outbreak Tutorial Instructions

Download the Epi Info 7.2 program from the CDC website and follow the instructions. Once downloaded to your computer, there are numerous YouTube videos and tutorials that teach this program but perhaps the most helpful resource is the Epi Info 7 User Guide. It may prove beneficial to print off a copy of the portions you need to refer to while you are using Epi Info 7.2. After learning this wonderful program, develop an outbreak survey from the fictitious disease provided for you below, using the Epi Info 7.2 software. Submit with acover page. Include in this assignment the topic you have picked for your final outbreak paper and your rationale for choosing that topic.

Allow yourself adequate time to navigate and learn this program. It will take substantial time (several days) to complete!

.

Fictitious disease scenario for development of survey questionair:

A graduation party was held in Springfield, VA for students and parents from the senior class at Springfield Christian Academy. The following meal was catered:

Roast chicken with rosemary

Tossed green salad with optional blue cheese, oil and vinegar, buttermilk, or thousand island dressings.

Fruit salad

Rolls and optional butter

Cheese cake with optional strawberry topping

Cranberry punch

Twenty-four hours after the party, members of the class and family members began to get ill. They experienced various severity of intestinal disorders including: nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, bloody diarrhea, intestinal cramping, headache, fever, and malaise. The Emergency Department, various primary care offices, and several urgent care offices reported symptoms for this outbreak to the Springfield Health Department who launched an investigation using Epi Info 7.2.

You are responsible to create an outbreak survey, using Epi Info 7.2 with the following questions:

Did you attend the party?

Which food(s) did you eat? Did you eat left overs the next day after the slumber party?

When did the symptoms start?

What were the symptoms you experienced?

Were you admitted to the hospital? Date?

Was a culture of your stool (diarrhea) taken? Date?

What was the result of the culture? What organism was found?

Submit a screen shot of your survey to Grade Center with a cover page and include the topic you will use for your final outbreak paper.

Answer the questions below according to the instructions given. Please note that responses to BOTH questions must be included in the same submission in order for your examination to be graded; otherwise, it will be returned to you for revision.
Write a composition using one of the topics listed below. Your composition needs to be three to five paragraphs long. It must contain an introduction, a body, and a conclusion.

For the purpose of this examination, sport is defined as “an activity involving physical exertion and skill in which an individual or team competes against another or others for entertainment without a predetermined outcome.” If you choose to explain why a certain sport is your favorite, please ensure that the chosen sport fits this definition.

Argue for or against the limitation of speed limits.
Explain why a certain sport is your favorite.
Compare and contrast driving in the winter and driving in the summer.
Describe a SINGLE memorable day in your life.

Write a letter of complaint. Follow the rules for a formal letter, and use the full-block style. The complaint may be about anything you wish (such as malfunctioning equipment, poor building maintenance, or disruptive noises from a nearby business). You can base your letter on a true experience, or you can make up all the details you need.
Please note that a form letter or a template cannot be used in constructing your response to question 2. When a form letter or template is used, you are giving little to no thought to wording or formatting, and you are not actually creating your own complaint; you are simply filling in the blanks of someone else’s work.

Directions: Using Youtube.com, observe the History Channel Mozart Documentary, The Man Behind the Great Symphony 40. As you observe the video, answer each of the questions. 1. Mozart preferred what stringed instrument? 2. Is it true that Mozart never make erasures in his music? How do we know? 3. Why are there empty lines of music in Mozarts catalogue of his own music? 4. How did Salzburg view Mozart during his lifetime? After his lifetime? 5. What does Nicole Benedetti say about Mozarts violin concerto, K. 219? 6. What is unique about Mozarts Mass in C minor and Requiem? 7. What piece of equipment would possibly serve the unbelievable mercurial and highly believable surface texture of Mozarts music? 8. What is important about the large apartment where the Mozart family once lived in Vienna? 9. What is Cos fan tutte? 10. What is the subject matter of the Cos fan tutte libretto? 11. Why is the hut in Vienna significant in Mozarts life? 12. What relationship did Mozart have with the original soprano who sang The Queen of the Night? 13. Discuss how the film describes Mozarts transcendence. 14. What are your own perspectives about it? 15. If Mozart were alive today, what does the violinist suggests that he would be writing for .

In a three- to five-page paper (not including the title and reference pages) research and discuss how the SECs EDGAR | Search Tools improves how investors find and use financial information. In your paper,

Explain how investors can use the Securities and Exchange Commissions (SEC) database at EDGAR | Search Tools (Links to an external site.) to research a companys operations and financial information.
Assess the financial performance of Amazon.com, Inc. (AMZN) by determining the risk of investing in the company through financial statement analysis. To make the above assessment and determination, go to Amazons.com (Links to an external site.) official website, and locate the companys Investor Relations link. Using the Investors Relations link, find financial information such as SEC Filings and Annual Reports.
Conclude how investors can assess Amazons.com financial performance and risk using Annual Reports.
Explain the content of each report listed below in detail and how it relates to your assessment of Amazons.com financial performance.
Form 10-K SEC filings
Annual Reports
Management Discussion and Analysis
Managements Responsibility for Financial Reporting
Managements Report on Internal Control over Financial Reporting
Auditors Report
Selected Financial Data

Amazon.com, Inc. (AMZN) is the worlds largest electronic commerce and cloud computing company measured by revenue and market capitalization. The following items were adapted from a recent Annual Report of Amazon.com (Links to an external site.) for the year ending December 31:

In millions

1. Accounts payable

$16,459

2. Accounts receivable

5,612

3. Cash

14,557

4. Cost of sales

62,752

5. Income tax expense

167

6. Interest expense

210

7. Inventories

8,299

8. Net cash provided by operating activities

6,842

9. Net cash flows used for investing activities

(5,065)

10. Net sales

88,988

11. Other expense

118

12. Other income

76

13. Property, plant, and other long-term assets

16,967

14. Selling, general, and administrative expenses

26,058

15. Retained earnings (Dec. 31)

2,190

Indicate on which financial statement you would find each of the preceding items using the following notations (note: an item may appear on more than one statement):
IS Income statement
SE Statement of stockholders equity
BS Balance sheet
SCF Statement of cash flow
Prepare an income statement for the year ending December 31, based on the com, Inc. financial statement data shown above.

The Final Paper: SEC Filings and the EDGAR Database

Must be three to five double-spaced pages in length (not including title and references pages) and formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Centers APA Style (Links to an external site.)
Must include a separate title page with the following:
Title of paper
Students name
Course name and number
Instructors name
Date submitted

For further assistance with the formatting and the title page, refer to APA Formatting for Word 2013 (Links to an external site.).

Must utilize academic voice. See the Academic Voice (Links to an external site.) resource for additional guidance.
Must include an introduction and conclusion paragraph. Your introduction paragraph needs to end with a clear thesis statement that indicates the purpose of your paper.
For assistance on writing Introductions & Conclusions (Links to an external site.) as well as Writing a Thesis Statement (Links to an external site.), refer to the Ashford Writing Center resources.
Must add an APA heading (Level 1 or Level 2) for each one of the topics discussed in the research paper as shown:
SEC EDGAR Database Level 1Amazons.com financial performance Level 1
Form 10-K SEC Filings Level 2
Annual Reports Level 2
Management Discussion and Analysis Level 2
Managements Responsibility for Financial Reporting Level 2
Managements Report on Internal Control over Financial Reporting Level 2
Auditors Report Level 2
Selected Financial Data Level 2
Financial Statement Notations (IS, SE, BS, SCF) Level 1Amazons.com Income Statement Level 1

Use the following APA Style blog to read about the APA Five Levels of Headings (Links to an external site.)

Must use at least 14 scholarly and/or credible articles from ProQuest Business, Industry Databases: Nasdaq.com, EY.com, and Comprehensive Accounting Databases: FASB codification, AICPA, and SEC reference library sources in addition to the course text.
The Scholarly, Peer Reviewed, and Other Credible Sources (Links to an external site.) table offers additional guidance on appropriate source types. If you have questions about whether a specific source is appropriate for this assignment, please contact your instructor. Your instructor has the final say about the appropriateness of a specific source for a particular assignment.
Must document any information used from sources in APA style as outlined i

Writing Assignment

Write a multi-paragraph essay providing (defining) your personal criteria for happiness and exploring whether or not you have achieved happiness based on these criteria. For this writing assignment, your response should be persuasive, thoughtful, and detailed, showing various points that support both the criteria you have chosen to define happiness and your discussion of how closely you currently match this definition. Logical evidence that backs up your opinion should be used throughout.

The essay should clearly explain what you think it means to be happy and whether or not you currently fit or match the definition you present. The first paragraph will offer an interesting introduction that pulls the reader into your views on how happiness should be defined using specific criteria. The following two paragraphs need to include main points that prove how and why your criteria define happiness (one criterion per paragraph), evidence supporting these criteria, and analysis explaining how the evidence supports each point. The next paragraph (#4), needs to discuss whether or not your situation matches the criteria you used to define happiness and answers the question, Based on your definition, are you currently happy? Its okay for the answer to this question to be no, but you should have some idea of what you might need to do to be happier, if that is one of your goals. You may be content as is, which is great. For the purpose of this assignment, just be honest about your current state and your thoughts on why you feel that way. You will need to provide evidence and reasoning to support the match. Your final paragraph should conclude your thoughts on this topic in an interesting, thoughtful way that goes beyond summary and gives your reader something to consider.

As a reminder, each paragraph should have a topic sentence that clearly states your point and details to support/prove this point. You should have transitions between paragraphs that show why each point appears in this order. The grading rubric below will help you develop your paper.

Rubric

Your essay will be graded using five separate categories: Purpose, Thesis Statement, Supporting Ideas, Paragraph Development, and Grammar & Punctuation. Each of these items will be rated as Proficient, Developing, and Needs Improvement.