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Write a 4,000 word essay on ” The American Drug Culture impact on Individual, Family and Community

The war on drugs is America’s longest war. It has been 40-plus years since Nixon launched our modern “war on drugs” and yet drugs are as plentiful as ever. While the idea that we can have a “drug-free society” is laughable, the disastrous consequences of our drug war are dead serious.

 

 

1. Compose a “Practical Application Addendum” as an appendixto the essay, including the following elements:

   Format:

○     Length: 500 words (includes footnotes)

○     Doubled spaced

○     12-point font

○     1-inch margins

○     “Times New Roman” font style

○     All footnote and bibliographic citations must follow the guidelines given in Kate L. Turabian’s A Manual for Writers of Term Papers, Theses and Dissertations, 8th Edition.

 

Content:

Financial ratios are the principal tool of financial analysis. Ratios standardize the financial information of firms so comparisons can be made between firms of varying sizes. Choose two firms in the same sector; locate their current financial information both in terms of current financial statements and stock market prices. With the information, do a paper of 8-10 pages, with the following headings:

• How liquid are the firms?
• Are the firm’s managers generating adequate operating profits on the company’s assets?
• How are the firms financing their assets?
• Are the firm’s managers providing a good return on the capital provided by the shareholders?
• Are the firms’ managers creating shareholder value?

Assignment 2: Ethical Decision Making

Part 1

A human services worker needs to be competent to work with clients from different cultures. There are times when cultural differences between the human services worker and the client influence the final service. For example, suppose a human services worker promotes the cause of independence for all people while the client’s culture values strong family cohesion. In this case, the client’s values are equivalent to dependency in the eyes of the human services worker and can lead to conflict. However, if the human services worker possesses the cultural competence necessary to work with the client, he or she would be better equipped to manage this discrepancy in personally held, culture-based views. When situations such as these arise, the human services worker should be aware of the needs of the client with strong consideration of cultural influence.

When potential ethical conflicts occur due to various differences, the human services worker faces the challenge of making the appropriate ethical decision to ensure that the rights of his or her client are protected while receiving services. The assignment will explore the role of such cultural influences in ethical decisions in human services.

Tasks:

On the basis of your readings and research, address the following in about 200 words:

• Discuss the influence of culture in ethical decision making. In your answer:
  • Address the influence of culture on the individual perceptions of the human services worker and the client.
  • Focus on the potential ethical dilemmas that might arise from differences in cultural perspectives.

Part 2

Human services administrators manage agencies that employ professionals from various disciplines.

In this assignment, you will try to resolve an issue from the perspective of an administrator who is helping a psychologist in an agency. It is important to note that ethics codes might require psychologists to handle situations differently than social workers and counselors and vice versa.

Tasks:

You are the human services administrator for an agency and Shana is a human services professional in your agency. She is working with a client who was initially diagnosed with mild depression after separating from her fiancé. As Shana’s work proceeds, she realizes that her client is beginning to recover memories from a past trauma. While Shana is competent with treating depression and has worked in cases with trauma-related symptoms in the past, she has no experience treating the type of trauma identified by her client.

You are the administrator of the agency responsible for helping Shana handle this situation. Based on your knowledge and research, respond to the following questions in about 300 words:

• What would Shana do in this situation if she were a licensed professional counselor in a rural area where she was the only helping professional?
• What would Shana’s response as a licensed counselor be? Would it be similar to or different from the way she would handle the same situation if she were a social worker or a psychologist in the agency?

In your responses, consider the following:

• There are no other psychologists, counselors, social workers, or psychiatrists within a hundred-mile radius.
• Shana’s client has limited means of transportation.
• Shana has no formal training in treating the type of trauma her client is experiencing.
• Shana is a member of a professional organization, such as American Psychological Association (APA), National Association of Social Workers (NASW), or American Counseling Association (ACA).

Submission Details:

• By Saturday, November 7, 2015, post your responses to this Discussion Area.
• Through Wednesday, November 11, 2015, respond to at least two of your classmates’ posts

epic heroes are always at the center of epic poetry. they come from upper-class backgrounds, do great deeds, and reflect the values of society in which they live. they are usually men. select one or more modern-day heroes, then compare and contrast them with Beowulf

Company Background:

Waterfront Development is a provincial crown corporation in charge of developing the strategic potential of waterfronts in Bedford, Dartmouth, Halifax and Lunenburg. The company is focused on tourism, and has an invested interest in operating the Halifax Waterfront as a fully functional Marina. The Halifax waterfront offers more than 1 kilometre (.6 mile) of public berth space including over 457 metres (1500 feet) of floating docks. The berthing spaces are free to daytime boaters. All that is asked of the free daytime boaters is that they register with the Marina Office so they can be included in the marina database. Boaters who want to stay one night or more are charged. The marina is operational from May-October every year and sees visitors from all areas of the globe. This project will focus solely on the Marina Services sector of the Waterfront Development Corporation.

Problems/Opportunity:

Inefficient/complex web site design:

The current website for this company is very inconvenient. For example if a customer wants to book a place on the marina from the website, he/she have to go through multiple clicks and numerous webpages until he/she is directed to the online reservation form. As a result, more than half of the customers preferred to call the office and make a reservation rather than doing it online. Moreover, taking the customer information (Name, Address, Boat etc.) over the phone can often lead to a typing mistake and is more time consuming. Due to this inefficient web design the company is incurring more expenses over time.

Inefficient Online Booking System:

The current online system takes all of the necessary information from the customer via an online forum. That form is then sent to the Marina Office e-mail address where it is manually entered into the database by an employee. This is incredibly inefficient, it makes more sense to have the database update automatically whenever a customer registers for a booking online.

Security:

Security is a large issue with the current system. Many customers leave without paying. Some expect that they can simply pay over the phone at a later date. For customers that leave the country, this ends up being their only option. The Marina office cannot accept credit cards over the phone and therefore the transaction must be carried out by Management. An online payment system could solve this problem easily. Customers could then pay in advance with a credit card to ensure that their space is reserved.

Mapping:

There are multiple berthing locations on the Halifax Waterfront and it can be very confusing for visitors to understand exactly where their reserved space is. It is also confusing for the employee to try and keep track of all the boats on the property at any given time. There is software available that plots all of the berthing spaces on a map, showing which ones are available and which ones are booked at any given time. No such system is currently used by the Marina Office.

Multiple Programs updating concurrently:

Two programs are used to keep track of bookings. ICal is used for time management while Filemaker Pro is used to manage the Marina database. When one gets changed, the other must be updated as well. This is done manually. It can be very confusing since management also has access to both programs. Often the programs will not be consistent with one another. This makes it difficult to figure out which customers have paid and which ones have not. This ties in with security as it enables customers to periodically get away without paying.

Project Objective:

The objective of this project is to analyze the System that Waterfront Development is currently using to operate the Halifax Marina. Numerous issues are apparent with the current system as described above. The focus of this project is systems acquisition, therefore software solutions will be explored and compared to the current system in order to identify the best possible alternative to the current system. The goal is to solve as many of the above issues as possible as well as any others that become apparent over the duration of this project.
I have already done the whole project but I only have to answer one Question.
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Here are the website url’s for the three alternative software products:

http://getmolo.com/

http://www.marinaoffice.net/

http://boatcloud.com/clubhub.htm

based on the information given above and attached answer

Q1.System architecture design (you may have different system architecture designs for different
alternative application software products)

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I was thinking of writing a business plan of opening a restaurant.

Your assignment for Friday is to research an article concerning incident investigations and provide a summary. This assignment is due on Friday at 11:59pm. Your article should identify important aspects of incident investigation from the authors perspective. Your summary should be one page minimum and submitted to Blackboard.

• Your essay must include an introduction with a thesis,  body paragraphs with topic sentences, and a  conclusion
• Essays must demonstrate coherence through the use of transitions and proper organization.
• Your paper must be formatted in correct MLA style.
• The paper must be three full pages (about 900 words).
• Organize this essay using the block method or the point-by-point method.
• The paper must be formatted in correct MLA style.
• The final essay must incluse a works cited entry of the researched source you used in your essay.
• TOPIC

  Option 1: Compare and/or contrast two different views of a current social controversy: for example, the two perspectives of racial tensions in a community, such as Ferguson or Baltimore.

  Option 2: Compare and/or contract two different viewpoints of a current political issue: for example, Religious Freedom Act.

  Option 3:Generic drugs vs. Non-Generic, E-Cigarettes vs. Regular cigarettes

  Introduction (at least 5-7 sentences)

  Your introduction must have a thesis.

  Body Paragraphs (at least 5-7 sentences)

  Each body paragraph should begin with a topic sentence that supports the thesis statement.

  Transitional expressions are used effectively throughout the essay for flow, coherence, and cohesiveness (meanwhile, furthermore, therefore, finally, first, second, in conclusion, etc.)

  All body paragraphs should have well-developed examples to prove your topic sentence and supports your thesis.

  Use the block method or the point-by-point method to organize your paragraphs.

   

  You must quote from your source at least once in your essay using correct in text citation format. You may use direct quotes, but be sure to integrate the quote seamlessly through the use of signal phrases and quotation marks.  If paraphrasing, please note that parenthetical citations are required.

  Be sure to include a works cited page of the source used in the essay.

  Conclusion (at least 5-7 sentences)

  Your conclusion should restate the main idea of your essay in a creative manner.

  Provide closure to the essay.

  Grammar and Mechanics

  No glaring grammar mistakes (fragments, agreement issues, verb tense shifts, run-ons, comma splices, wordiness, awkward sentence structures, no comma errors or punctuation errors, misspelled, no grammar and mechanics related errors)

  Mature vocabulary, diction, and syntax are evident.

  Sentence structure shows control and some variety

  Audience and Tone

  Academic papers require the use of formal language.

  Avoid slang, informal/inappropriate usages, and biases.

  Use the third person point of view (he, she, one, a person, etc.), not the first person point of view (I), or the second person point of view (you).

   

  Brainstorming(5pts), Outline, with Thesis(15pts) Total (20pts.)

  • Generation of ideas in brainstorming

  • The outline shows a thesis, topic sentences, and specific details.

  Annotated Bibliography  (10pts.)

  • Annotated bibliography is in proper MLA format.

  Rough Draft (20pts.)

  • Revised introduction and thesis

  • Revised paragraphs begin with topic sentences that relates to the thesis.

  • Revised topic sentences supported with specific details.

  • There is use of transitions.

  • Revised conclusion summarizes the main points of the essay in a creative manner.

  • Works cited page

  Peer/Self  Review (10 pts.)

  • All questions need to be answered in a complete and thorough manner to receive credit.

   

  Final Essay with Works Cited Page (100pts.)

  • A thorough document that reflects all the requirements above and has been revised and edited.

  • The works cited page is numbered and in proper MLA format.

Compensation and Reimbursement Plans

 

One way in which a MCO can control cost, quality, and access is through various structured compensation and reimbursement plans. The two most common examples are fee for service and capitation. Moreover, there are different types of reimbursement systems for inpatient and outpatient services. Answer the following questions in regard to the above information:

• Examine the three types of inpatient or outpatient reimbursement systems?
• Evaluate the key advantages and disadvantages of each system from the point of view of a managed care plan and the hospital?
• What is the difference between capitation and FFS? Evaluate the type of market appropriate for each reimbursement method. Support your answer by providing an example of an MCO using either of these methods.
• What do you understand by the term “UCR”? With what form of reimbursement is this term associated? Search current information from the Internet and evaluate the use of UCR in the managed care industry.

Reimbursement procedures are complex and detailed, especially those associated with government programs such as Medicare. Part of the regulatory requirements of Medicare is to prevent illegal billing practices such as churning, upcoding, and unbundling. You can search these topics by clicking http://oig.hhs.gov. You can also search on federal regulations for reimbursement procedures and fraud and compliance guidelines and education materials.

Based on your research, respond to the following questions:

• Review the latest enforcement actions on this website. Identify a case where at least one of the following illegal actions was used—churning, upcoding, and unbundling.
• What are some of the specific examples of actions taken against providers engaged in these practices?

After answering the above questions, read the following information:

P4P is a type of compensation method for providers based on evidence-based practices that promote better quality outcomes. Find at least two online sources of information, such as professional associations and government resources, from the South University Online library or the Internet on P4P compensation programs: one in favor of and one against this type of compensation program for providers.

Now, using the readings this week and the information gathered from the above sources:

• Explain, in your own words, the negative consequences of P4P program.
• Describe the market forces making this type of compensation program popular.