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Write an essay on one of the following topics from Chapter 1 of Rereading America. Paraphrase and quote from one or more articles and use your own experiences and knowledge to support your thinking and essay.

*2. Read “What We Really Miss About the 1950’s” by Stephanie Coontz on pages 2642 and take careful notes in order to paraphrase and quote some of her main ideas when you write your essay. Your assignment is to compare your generation with your parents and grandparents or even your kids generations and argue which generation has it or had it the best growing up. Use the article and information and experiences from your own life.

Write a paper in which you:
Analyze a financial and economic issue in the health care industry.
Choose a current financial or economic issue in the health care industry. Consider the following:
What are the economic trends of the health care payment system?
What are the supply and demand challenges for health care services?
Why are costs increasing in the health care system?
What regulatory issues are affecting, or will affect, the health care industry?

Analyze the issue and its financial impact on the health care industry.
Provide recommendations for improving the issue. Consider current strategies being used or presented for improving the issue.
Include what you believe would be the outcome of these recommendations if implemented.

Write a personal narrative about something you did as a child that you regret and how it changed you in the future.

This modules required readings, video, and lecture notes highlight organizational culture, climate and change theory.

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I Love Lucy: A Colorized Celebration – “Job Switching” clip
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After watching the famous chocolate scene from the I Love Lucy Show in the:

Module 3: Lecture Materials & Resources, discuss the following:

Analyze the organizational structures at this chocolate factory.

Is it functioning as an open or closed and bureaucratic or collaborative system?

How would you characterize the factorys climate and culture?

Have you ever felt that your administrators were creating unrealistic expectations for unattainable student results? If so, describe the situation and offer solutions to motivate the faculty and staff without making them feel helplessness as portrayed in the video clip.

1. Write a summary describing the role of leadership in health care experience. As a part of your summary, BE SURE to include the duties or skills that you seek to develop.

Write an essay that describes each of the following Web Development Technologies:

Creating Dynamic Website using PHP

Creating MySQL database

Using PHP with MySQL

PHP – Cookies and Sessions

Web Application Security

Your essay should explain each of these technologies, clarify how they contribute to the web development, present examples, and consider expert suggestions and recommendations for best practice. You will need to consult text books and authoritative published sources. Your essay must use Harvard referencing.

Compare and contrast the state of the environment in 1948 and today. Build a table and include it to support your essay – the table should help you see the similarities and differences. Particularly focusing on the US, would you say that environmental regulations have become necessary during this transition period? Why or why not? What key events justify your position?Demonstrate student learning through synthesis of your findings.

Instructions

ACCT 326 Writing Assignment #4

When global firms like Home Depot, Office of Personnel Management, and Target become prime targets for hackers, the attack themselves become front-page news. Financial and personal data have been compromised despite firms having measures in place. You will review three firms (only one firm being the Home Depot, OPM, or Target breach) where a successful attack was made on their systems by hackers. In terms of the second & third firms, you are free to select a breach/attack that occurred within the last three years.

Paper Layout

Part I (Facts of Case #1): You will describe what happened and how did the firm respond to the breach/attack. Also, you will identify and discuss how consumers reacted to the breach/attack. Finally, assess how much responsibility should lie with the firm per this breach/attack.

Part II (Facts of Case #2): You will describe what happened and how did the firm respond to the breach/attack. Also, you will identify and discuss how consumers reacted to the breach/attack. Finally, assess how much responsibility should lie with the firm per this breach/attack.

Part III (Facts of Case #3): You will describe what happened and how did the firm respond to the breach/attack. Also, you will identify and discuss how consumers reacted to the breach/attack. Finally, assess how much responsibility should lie with the firm per this breach/attack.

Part IV (Prevention): Identify and discuss at least three measures firms must take to limit/prevent breaches and attacks from happening. One of your preventive measures must be a technology-based measure, such as robotic processing automation (RPA), blockchain, artificial intelligence (AI), or data analytics would have prevented/limited the impact of data breaches.

Part V (Role of the Government & Others): In this section, discuss the role that the Federal Government and large associations (e.g., ISACA, AICAP, IIA) should play regarding preventing/limiting breaches. Be sure to speak about the Government first and then pick an association to discuss.

Part VI (Awareness): Explain how this assignment will make you more aware of data breaches. Identify and discuss a set of recommendations you can take to protect yourself and your firm if you are working.

Paper Guidelines

Page Length: Your response should not exceed eight pages (double-spaced) or four pages (single-spaced). Note that the cover page, reference page, and appendix, if provided are excluded from the page count.

References: You will need to include at least four literary references and at least four in-text citations to support your paper. These references must be related directly to the topics covered in the paper. References & citations must be properly formatted as noted below.

Headings: You will need to use headings (short, brief, and centered) to separate each area of your paper. Your headings should have an appropriate title such as Prevention instead of Part IV.

Margins & Font Sizes: Use standard margins (minimum .5″; maximum 1.5″) and standard font size (minimum 10 point; maximum 12 point) in your paper.

Writing Style: APA is the preferred writing style, but you can choose any appropriate writing style (e.g. MLA), except that all references are to be formatted via APA. Please consult the UMGC Effective Writing Center (http://www.umgc.edu/writingcenter/index.cfm) for assistance regarding the choice of styles and formatting of references via APA.

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What do you think of ethical egoism? What objections for or against it do you find convincing? Unconvincing? Feel free to add to, develop, or critique those reasons given above. You can also work in aspects of rational egoism and conditional egoism as well.

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Psychological and Ethical Egoism

What is the difference between egoism and egotism (with a t)?

What is psychological egoism?

Know that one of the central difficulties with psychological egoism is the fact that it is about motivesabout the selfish motives that underlie all of our acts. After all, motives are very difficultand usually impossibleto verify, observe, study scientifically, etc. This doesn’t mean the theory is false; but it does mean it may be useless as an explanatory principle. After all, one of the virtues of a good explanation – along with being simple, wide in scope, internally consistent, coherent with what we already know, and capable of making predictions – is that is can be testable or falsified. But if we can’t ever test motives in so many cases then the theory is useless as an explanation. Again, it doesn’t immediately follow that it is false; just that it is not testable and is, as your reading noted, a closed theory.

But if we look at the other side of the argument, we do have peoples sincere and, sometimes, carefully formulated first-person testimony of their altruistic motives. This strongly suggests that egoism is not just a poor explanatory device but also false. Of course, this evidence is a bit weak since it is also about motives that we cannot address from a third-person perspective, that is, from a perspective where everyone can see it like they can see a murder weapon in court. But first person testimony is something: it can be grasped in consciousness with a degree of clarity and conveyed to others. To refute the universal claim of psychological egoism we only need one counterexample. Perhaps the first person testimony of peoples experience is enough to provide one.

What is rational egoism?

What is conditional egoism?

Know that one objection to rational egoism is that it may not always be rational to act in your own self-interest.

What is ethical egoism?

What are some arguments for and against ethical egoism? Some reasons for ethical egoism are:

Acting out of self-interest will help you achieve more for yourself which, in turn, can maximize social welfare. For example, the more people realize their self-interest the happier they are which, in turn, has a positive effect on others. Or, the more people focus on the success of their own careers the more they will earn and produce thus leading to economic growth, competition, innovation, and so on.

Each person is uniquely qualified to know what his or her interest is.

If you act out of self-interest you have self-respect and refuse to be a slave for others, sacrificed for others, be manipulated by other people’s interests, and so on. Ethical egoism seems to support, rather than threaten, support for individual rights and egalitarian values.

Why wouldnt you choose to always act out of selfish motives? Here are a few suggestions:

Because ethical egoism can lead to runaway greed which, as we have seen so clearly throughout history and even recently in the wake of the 2008 bailout, can lead to massive devastation which could negatively effect you as well.

Because ethical egoism threatens to make objective moral truth meaningless. After all, what is good or right is what allows you to realize your selfish needs…and that is that. Morality would simply be a matter of personal preference and there would be no way to make objective moral evaluations. Egoism would then be unacceptable to those of us who think moral inquiry does indeed have an objective dimension that allows us to discern whether moral propositions are true or false.

Because acting out of self-interest can make us unfulfilled human beings by making genuine friendship (and also love) impossible. And this isnt in the egoists interest! Here are two arguments in support of this point:

Argument 1:

Premise 1: To be a true friend to someone one needs to act, at least a lot of the time, for that person’s interest and needs to have such good will returned: genuine friends cannot always act out of purely selfish motives.
Premise 2: The ethical egoist believes everyone should always act out of self-interest. Conclusion: Therefore, ethical egoists can’t have any real friends.

Argument II:

Premise 1: Having genuine friends is necessary for a healthy, fulfilling life (this is plausible given what we know from psychology and sociology).
Premise 2: But ethical egoists can’t have any real friends (proven in argument 1).
Conclusion: So ethical egoists can’t lead healthy, fulfilling lives.

If these arguments work then it would be in the interest of even an ethical egoist to, sometimes, act for the sake of others. But if this is the case then she would have to stop being an ethical egoist who maintains it is a right to always act in one owns self-interest.

Social Contract Theory (SCT)

Know that SCT is the view that persons’ moral and/or political obligations are dependent upon a contract or agreement among them to form the society in which they live.

As you will from the reading, SCT has many nuances in its long history. We won’t go over all these nuances in our class. But I want you to be able to compare and contrast Hobbes’ view of the social contract with Locke’s view of the social contract (see the entry on the SCT in IEP for details on both, as well as this week’s videos). Hobbes’ view, which is grounded in moral relativism, hedonism (pleasure is the ultimate good), egoism, materialism (reality is only matter in motion), and determinism (every movement is the necessary effect of previous causes and thus there is no free will), entails that we are all determined to avoid the violent “state of nature” (the state of the world without civilization which, due to our egoism and desire for pleasure and power, is “solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short”) by entering into a social contract by adopting the following “the laws of nature”: (1) seeks peace if others do as well; (2) give up your all rights if others do as well; and (3) hand over all power to a Leviathan or powerful ruler who will keep the peace by force. In contrast, Locke does not view humans as egoists and thus doesn’t think the state of nature would be so bad. As a result, he doesn’t think humans would be so desperate to escape it by adopting a contract in which we lose our rights. Thus his version of the social contract included innate natural rights, a division of powers in government, the right to legitimate revolution, and, in general, a government of, by, and for the people. Our founding fathers, in considering these theories, chose to go with Locke. Should we side with our founders? If so why? Can we take a little of Hobbes and a little of Locke? Do we need some other political theory? If so, what? These are some of the questions we can ask here.

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Social Contract Theory

Egoism

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Please provide a response to 2 of the critical thinking questions for this chapter. Label your answers clearly (i.e., which question you are responding to).

1. What are the three similarities and three differences between male and female sexual response that you believe are the most important? Explain your answers.

2. In your opinion, what is the most important reason for people to study and understand the process of human sexual responding? Why?

3. Which of the various models of human sexual response do you feel best describes what really happens? By combining any of the components of the various models and adding any features of your own that you feel are missing, design a new model of human sexual response. Explain why you think your design is better.

4. For many couples, the goal of lovemaking is orgasm. Why do some sex researchers and therapists claim that this detracts from a satisfying sexual experience?

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All discussion articles are from the book Taking Sides: Clashing Views in Human Sexuality (14th Edition)

What is the theory of intersexuality? What, if any, is the sex educators role in addressing intersectionality in their lessons? What, in your opinion, are the overarching goals and objectives of sexuality education? How might intersectionality and racial/social justice align with these goals? Are all sex educators equipped, skilled, or ready to address issues related to the intersections of sex education and racial/social justice? Why or why not?
Please provide a response to 2 of the critical thinking questions for this chapter. Label your answers clearly (i.e., which question you are responding to).

1. What are the three similarities and three differences between male and female sexual response that you believe are the most important? Explain your answers.

2. In your opinion, what is the most important reason for people to study and understand the process of human sexual responding? Why?

3. Which of the various models of human sexual response do you feel best describes what really happens? By combining any of the components of the various models and adding any features of your own that you feel are missing, design a new model of human sexual response. Explain why you think your design is better.

4. For many couples, the goal of lovemaking is orgasm. Why do some sex researchers and therapists claim that this detracts from a satisfying sexual experience?