Rationale Course Works Samples For Students

Question 1

Are there possible criminal aspects of HIV/AIDS? Consider the case law presented in your textbook and elsewhere, and explain. Please provide specific examples.

The intentional spread of HIV is considered a criminal act. Pozgar (2012, p. 362) describes the case of an inmate who knew that he was infected with both HIV and the hepatitis virus. He was also informed of the ways that he can transmit the infection to others. He bit two correctional officers knowing that he can possibly infect them in this way. He was consequently charged with assault and battery. In State of Louisiana v. Schmidt, ...

Patient

Lillian was an 84 year old diagnosed with sickle cell anemia and uncomfortable with the American culture. She went to America from Philippines at a young age of 24 as a bride of war. She married a Caucasian American and became a neutralized citizen and according to her, she was a Filipino. Having lived in America for many years, she assumes some American traditions and continues to practice Filipino traditions. Philippines fall under the Asian culture, which includes many races with a variety of illness and health beliefs. She has a problem with the Asian culture because some of the Asian generalized beliefs differ with Filipino ...

Lee Humphreys1, Thilo Von Pape2, Veronika , Pape2, & Karnowski3 (2013). Evolving Mobile Media: Uses and Conceptualizations of the Mobile Internet. journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 18(4), 491-507. Retrieved from ournal of Computer-Mediated Communication Volume 18, Issue 4, pages 491–507.

Rationale

Internet is readily accessible in mobile devices. This is due to what is called technological convergence. Using the Appropriation Model of mobile telephony such as Wirth, Karnowski and von Pape, an experiment was undertaken to conceptualize and understand how mobile internet is used. Semi structured interviews were conducted with twenty one interviews whose cultures differed. The interviewees were both ...

1. Prediction

What do you know now?

Story

What do you expect next?

After reading or listening to a story, a student gets to know something in it. He or she can then combine what he or she already know outside the story, with the clues in the story and will be able to say what will happen next (Duke & Pearson 2001). This is called prediction.

Rational: Prediction makes the students to become better readers and writers (McNamara, 2007).

Prediction will support the assessment through getting the responses from students on where the predictions can be made in a story (Hibbard and Wagner ...

Execution Quality

Assessing the project at its gate for their execution quality is very important. An analysis of execution quality helps to assess how viable and effective the strategy for carrying out the project is. It therefore provides an overview of the performance of the project. An example is at the IT Plan Evaluation stage where the resources required and analysis of the market is done. At this stage, if the execution quality is not examined, then the ability to mobilize resources or market feasibility results may be fundamentally flawed. This means that the overall efficiency of the project will be ...

Introduction

Nursing research falls under two comprehensive worldviews. These are naturalistic paradigm and positivist paradigm, which have reality assumptions and world views that oppose each other. For instance, regarding to the reality, naturalistic paradigm have multiple realities, which changes continually hence make it very hard to measure whereas the positivists believe in existence of a single reality that can essentially me measured.

The two crucial categories of research methods are thus qualitative and quantitative. Qualitative research in most cases aligns itself with naturalistic paradigm while quantitative research aligns with positivist paradigm. Qualitative research is more subjective, informal, and an inductive approach ...

NEW STAR HOSPITAL

INTRODUCTION
Hospitals require enhancing the standards by meeting the needs of the time. This includes innovation, technological change, and modernization in health care. Along with this, researching the industry and offering the best level of services to the communities in which the system is operating. In this report the mission, vision, values and strategic positioning of the hospital will be discussed so that the new employees who are joining can understand the goals which the strategic managers aim to acquire. This is an essential component using which the businesses can manage a diverse workforce and align them appropriately for ...

Business

Executive summary
Marketing is a fundamental process within the operational mandate of any organization. Accordingly, through marketing, businesses manage to generate product awareness through extensive approaches construed towards both product development and reach to target customers. Encompassing four facets of product, place, price and promotion, marketing is a holistic tool towards sustaining sales and market growth of an organization. Hence, through the inculcation of the diverse principles within the marketing facet, organizations reap successful outcomes. Most specifically, a marketing plan is directed towards developing an effective product policy statement in regards to vision, mission, goals and various approaches towards product launch ...

Transportation sector plays a pivotal role for the economic development of a country. The secretaries of transportation agencies particularly Bureau of Transportation Statistics and Surface Transportation Board need to evaluate different indicators for sustainable growth and development of the respective departments.

Rationale for Bureau of Transportation Statistics

Bureau of Transportation Statistics focused on the performance, condition, and development of the transportation system of United States. Furthermore, it concentrates on collection, examination and releasing of data gaps for improvement of transport statistics portals (Department of Transportation, 2014).

The approximated value of U.S. transportation properties in 2010 was more than $7 trillion. The public has one-half of the ...

Answer 1

One example of a basic communication would be a discussion in class where a lecturer poses a question to one of his students. Being the lecture, I ask a student to define the word communication. My encoding is not difficult and it entails a basic definition of the word. The student that I pose the question to decodes it correctly and gives me the feedback. The feedback is the correct answer to the question I asked about the definition of communication. No changes are made in any future messages sent. This describes a basic communication situation.

Answer 2

I would side with Nozick in the theory of distributive ...

Question 1

Alibaba Group Holding being a business like any other has strength, weakness, and opportunities and threats (SWOT) the same way other business experiences. The company operates in greater parts of China, India, Korea, Japan, US and UK with its’ headquarter in Hangzhou, China and employs a total of 24,000 employees. The following refers to Alibaba’ SWOT analysis.

Strengths:

Strong market position; since Alibaba is the largest e-commerce company, it enjoys a wide and strong market position compared with other enterprises.
The presence of electronic commerce value chain; since launched, Alibaba has developed to be one of the leading online payment, e-commerce, cloud ...

Question 1

In my opinion, Martha Stewart committed the crime of insider trading when she sold her shares of ImClone on December 27, 2001. The rationale for this opinion is the following. First of all, by the very definition inside trading is conducting manipulations on the stock market for one’s advantage with the use of confidential information. Martha Stewart obtained confidential information from her broker and used it to her advantage – she sold her shares of ImClone. This statement is based on the assumption that there was no preliminary agreement of selling shares at the price of $60.

Personally, ...

Responses to Questions

1. Define natural law and give examples of how we can apply natural law to at least three different ethical decisions in your experience.
Natural law pertains to a system of justice or right held to be natural or common to all people and obtained from nature and not from the rules established by the society (Wolfe, 2003, p. 38). According to Aristotle, natural law is part of the divine law (MacKinnon, 2013, p. 57). I was once confronted with a question whether abortion should be made legal or not. As human beings, people are inclined to practice self-preservation ...

Introduction

There are issues that are seen and evident with the database that are used by the tour operator. One issue is that there is repeating data in the database. This is an issue that should be looked into when proposing a new data structure. There should not be any repeating values in the database. This paper will focus on procedures on how to refine the data structure for the tour operator’s database.

The tables that are there in the database are the following:

1st Normal form

The table has repeating values that should be altered to eradicate redundancy. If one customer chooses ...

Executive Summary

This project report gives chronological accounts of tornadoes events that have occurred over a period of 33 years, which is from 1980 to 2013. The paper is meant to illustrate statistical analysis of spatial and temporal occurrences of the mentioned environmental disaster. The rationale of the study was to give reasons behind the high instances of tornado related events and to formulate recommendations on how to predict the occurrences to reduce casualties and damage to property. Again, the analysis would build the foundation for modeling of future changes of a natural disaster with the aim of enhancing communication and disaster preparedness. ...

For a long time now, the police have often sought to play a comprehensive role in curbing insecurity cases across various states. Nevertheless, the efforts made by the police have and continue to remain futile due to the manner in which the public perceive the police force. Worth noting is the fact that the police are often perceived differently across various settings. One of the major perceptions that the police have received is that they are warriors. This perception is accredited to what is often referred to as militarization of the police. While it is true that the police are comparable ...

Introduction

Examining the Essential Need for Administration
Does Administration Help or HinderMinistry? Church Administration Policies
Organizational Charts
Church Budgets
Church Governments
Church Risk and Sexual Abuse
Conclusion

Bibliography

Church Administration Assessment Final

Introduction

Assessing the need for church administration has both a spiritually led rationale in accordance with the Holy scripture as mandated by the followers of Jesus Christ to the first Christian churches and a pragmatic assumption that any organizational leadership includes the responsibility of good business administration policies. Therefore, this assessment of church administration takes into account these as well as other different aspects as ...

Criminal Law

1. Parol evidence rule refers to the evidence of previous or simultaneous oral rule that written contracts may not be varied, contradicted, or changed by any previous or contemporaneous oral declarations. Parol evidence is admitted when a written contract does not include or contradicts the oral understanding reached by the parties. Under the parole evidence rule, when the court finds that that written contract has represented the final and complete statement of the parties to an agreement, it will no longer allow either party to submit parole evidence (Miller, 2011, p.187).

2. The statute of frauds refers to the requirement ...

In life, there are various complex situations that in most cases entail mental conflict between various moral imperatives. The complexity comes in the essence that obeying and taking into consideration of one will automatically lead to transgressing the other. In most cases ethical dilemma occurs in various occasions, and play tremendous role in ethical debates. In school, there are various ethical dilemmas that we undergo as students. These ethical dilemmas we face take place in the classroom, dorm and in the field (Garber, 2008). I have faced an ethical dilemma in the classroom and class work. We were given ...

Among patients with chronic illnesses such as heart disease, diabetes, renal disease and cancer, mental conditions such as depression and schizophrenia, as well as acute illnesses such as infections, patient adherence to both short-term and lifelong treatment regimens is a common problem (Graziottin et al., 2011). There are several barriers to patient compliance, namely insufficient knowledge about his or her own health condition, the perception that treatment leads to little or no positive effect, unrealistic expectations regarding outcomes, low self-efficacy in relation to self-management, increased frequency of medication dosing, depression, stress and anxiety, poor provider-patient relationship, lack of social support, ...

1. Explain the role of each of the five components of Mintzberg’s logo.

a. Strategic apex

According to the arguments of Mintzberg, a strategic apex refers to the system that is characteristic in organizations where leadership lies with the top management. In such a system, all the power lies with the top managerial staff; often one person. In this case, this controller of power could be the sole owner of the business. Such bureaucratic establishments are also characteristic with flexible, informal and basic structures comprising of few staffs or middle-line hierarchy. In such a system, decision making regarding strategy and operations, as well as the coordination of operations are run by the top management class ( ...

A particular feature of the literature is that it can send the author’s message in various ways and reach a target reader out of the crowd of ignorant ones. This can be often achieved through the hidden meaning inside a literary work or through irony, satire and caricature of the reality described. The aim of the present work is to compare and contrast Anton Chekhov’s play “The Proposal” and Guy de Maupassant’s short story “The Necklace”. In this context, the comparison will be conducted in the framework of the depicting of the same theme of gender ...