Mindfulness for the Beginners (reclaiming the present moment and your life)
Summarize the passage, then synthesize and merge your answers into a one-page APA essay.
Describe Tech Advancement and Social Change
Download a copy of the most recent CAFR for a local governmental/not-for-profit entity of your choice and familiarize yourself with the contents. The entitys website is often a great source for this document.The six-to-eight page Final Paper will discuss/analyze the document with at least three scholarly sources in addition to the text and must contain the following sections:1. Introductiona. Refer to the letter of transmittal or other narrative that accompanies the document. Provide an introduction to the chosen entity. This introduction should contain information regarding the history of the entity, including the mission, services provided, and area or individuals served.2. Financial Sectiona. Audit Reporti. Discuss the opinion expressed (unqualified or qualified) and the independent firm or government organization providing the opinion. Include a discussion of the statements covered by the opinion (basis statement plus combining statements and fund statements).b. Financial Statementsi. Discuss the statements included in the report (government and/or fund statements), including any noted trends or concerns.
ii. Discuss each fund utilized by the entity, including the type of fund, source of revenues, noted trends, and financial condition.c. Notes to the Financial Statementi. Discuss the number of notes contained in the report and topics covered. Are any concerns noted after reading the notes?d. Management Discussion and Analysis (MD&A)i. Discuss the provided MD&A, including any concerns, trends, and anticipated changes.3. Operationsa. Capital Assetsi. Discuss the capital assets reported on the government-wide statement and the note disclosures regarding balance changes as well as policies regarding depreciation and capitalization thresholds.b. General Long-term Liabilities and Debt Service Fundsi. Discuss any noted general Long-term Liabilities, including changes, debt limitations, and any overlapping debt.
ii. Discuss whether a Debt Service Fund is noted, including the debt instrument being serviced by the fund.c. Internal Service and Enterprise Fundsi. Discuss whether any activities are administered by an internal service or enterprise fund. If an internal service fund is not utilized, note how activities commonly used by more than one fund such as purchasing and printing are handled. Note whether any enterprise fund is operating at a deficit, and if so, how it is handled.
ii. Discuss any regulations governing the operations of the enterprise fund(s).d. Fiduciary Fundsi. Discuss whether any fiduciary activities are reported noting the fund utilized, purpose, and basis of accounting used.4. Recommendationsa.
We should have to cover-
1. What is restorative justice is,
2. How does restorative justice differ from the traditional criminal justice system; and
3. How has restorative justice been developed in Canada?
This is research assignment and as such I except you to clearly references all material and ideas taken from other sources.
Read the following article on Tresspass to Private Land at:
http://www.marymacgregor.ca/article25.htm
Discuss the differences and the applicability of focused and of open attention.
Research Virtuemart as an eCommerce platform.
Considering the elements discussed in the video from Week 9, prepare an overview report of Virtuemart and what it has to offer.
You may choose to include screenshots that demonstrate some of the overview characteristics and convenience features offered by Virtuemart as an eCommerce platform.
Your overview should be at least two content pages in length, not counting screenshots.
The style of the overview should be according to MLA with double spacing, one-inch margins on all sides, Times New Roman 12-point font, and inline citations for any thought or idea that is not your own.
Part B Section B: Create a mock research project.
Submit your answers to the three questions below in a Word document.
1. Considering your area of research interest, briefly state your area and a possible research project related to the area (150-500 words).
2. Pose one or more null and alternative hypotheses that follow from the possible research project.
3. List at least 10 variables that would be collected in your mock research project that would be used to answer the hypotheses. After each variable, list the variable name you will use in SPSS (Section C), the level of measurement (binary, nominal, ordinal, interval, or ratio), and the possible range of scores. Feel free to be creative.
Section C: Create a mock SPSS data set.
1. Open a data file in SPSS and enter in a set of mock data for the research project you describe in Section B. (Note: It is important that you do not collect real data for this activity; you cannot collect data without IRB approval).
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Select a campaign that had national or regional exposure and used different types of media. You should include a detailed discussion of the main message, execution styles, media strategies, and other campaign tactics that may appeal or not appeal to various multicultural groups. Briefly mention the outcomes of the campaign (i.e., whether it is successful or not). You will also conduct a SWOT analysis of the campaign where you will include a detailed discussion on what should be improved to target the audience based on what we learned in the class (i.e., what stereotypes should be avoided, what values should be emphasized and so forth).
Argumentative Research Paper Guidelines Required length: 6 8 typed, double-spaced pages (not including the Works Cited page) Format: 12 pt. / Times New Roman font, 1-inch margins; pages numbered in the upper-right corner with your last name and the page number; a heading in the upper-left corner of the first page that includes your name, the instructors name, English 2100, and the date; MLA citation style both in the text and the Works Cited page 6-8 page research paper in which you advance a well-supported argument about that topic. The paper should include a synthesis of 5-6 secondary, scholarly, academic, peer-reviewed sources (i.e. academic journal articles, academic book chapters / books). Ideally, your sources will have been published no earlier than 1998, but theres some room for flexibility if the need arises.