Are you an Avocado or An Artichoke? The purpose of this discussion assignment is to reflect upon your understanding of the two main philosophical approaches to the self. After completing your readings, write a  1-2 page paper comparing and contrasting the avocado/modernist idea of the self with the artichoke/postmodern view.  As you develop your response, you might find some of the following questions to be relevant: · What is the avocado idea of the self? What is your understanding of Plato and Aristotle’s belief that reason is the core essence of human beings? · What is the artichoke idea of the self? What is your understanding of the existential idea that our existence determines our essence?

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Week 2 Discussion

Are you an Avocado or An Artichoke?

The purpose of this discussion assignment is to reflect upon your understanding of the two main philosophical approaches to the self. After completing your readings, write a 
1-2 page paper comparing and contrasting the avocado/modernist idea of the self with the artichoke/postmodern view. 

As you develop your response, you might find some of the following questions to be relevant:
· What is the avocado idea of the self? What is your understanding of Plato and Aristotle’s belief that reason is the core essence of human beings?
· What is the artichoke idea of the self? What is your understanding of the existential idea that our existence determines our essence?
· What do you make of the concern that the avocado idea of the self values reason over emotion? What are the implications of this view for women?
· Are you an avocado or an artichoke? Or do you find the non-Western views of the self to be more compelling?

Prior to beginning work on this discussion, read the article Improving Criminal Justice Workplaces: Translating Theory and Research into Evidence-Based PracticeLinks to an external site. and review the web pages Careers in Social and Criminal JusticeLinks to an external site., S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsLinks to an external site., and Criminal Justice Career ToolkitLinks to an external site.. There are many careers available to people with criminal justice degrees. These career options extend beyond the commonly recognized police officer or social worker roles. After reviewing the required sources for this week, visit the Criminal Justice Career ToolkitLinks to an external site.Links to an external site. web page. Select at least two to three sources, and explain how you will use these sources in conjunction with your Social and Criminal Justice degree from Ashford University.

Prior to beginning work on this discussion, read the article Improving Criminal Justice Workplaces: Translating Theory and Research into Evidence-Based PracticeLinks to an external site. and review the web pages Careers in Social and Criminal JusticeLinks to an external site., S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsLinks to an external site., and Criminal Justice Career ToolkitLinks to an external site.. There are many careers available to people with criminal justice degrees. These career options extend beyond the commonly recognized police officer or social worker roles.
After reviewing the required sources for this week, visit the Criminal Justice Career ToolkitLinks to an external site.Links to an external site. web page. Select at least two to three sources, and explain how you will use these sources in conjunction with your Social and Criminal Justice degree from Ashford University. Additionally, provide a career goal based on your research, and select an additional source that you can use to help you achieve this goal. Consider this discussion board an opportunity for you to network with your classmates and help each other locate opportunities for future employment. Your initial post should be 100 to 150 words in length. Support your claims with examples from the required materials and/or other scholarly and/or credible sources, and properly cite any references.

Consider a large clothing shop in Sydney. Suppose it is known that the number of business suits sold per day is normally distributed with a mean, ? = 23 and standard deviation, ? = 10.  Mr Wood is employed to sell business suits. The number of business suits he sells each day for 40 days is recorded and the mean number per day calculated.   What is the probability that Mr Wood’s average daily sales will be less than 19 business suits

Consider a large clothing shop in Sydney. Suppose it is known that the number of business suits sold per day is normally distributed with a mean, ? = 23 and standard deviation, ? = 10.  Mr Wood is employed to sell business suits. The number of business suits he sells each day for 40 days is recorded and the mean number per day calculated.  
What is the probability that Mr Wood’s average daily sales will be less than 19 business suits

What is structuralism and who was associated with it. Who were the functionalists? Describe three differences between structuralism and functionalism. What were Darwin’s five theses according to Ernst Mayr?

Part 1: You will be asked to answer one of these questions on Test 4. Not all students will be asked the same question. These are the actual test questions, but you do not know which one I will ask you. You should prepare an answer to each question ahead of time. Please write in complete sentences. ANSWER EACH 6-10 SENTENCES
What is structuralism and who was associated with it. Who were the functionalists? Describe three differences between structuralism and functionalism.
What were Darwin’s five theses according to Ernst Mayr? Do not just list them. Describe what they mean
Part 2: Answer study guide questions
Darwin and Evolution:
1. What did Thomas Malthus say and how did it influence Darwin? How did these ideas combine with the idea of “variation between individuals” to produce a new theory.?
2. Compare natural selection and artificial selection. What role does purpose and progress play in each kind of selection?
3. Give a factual example of natural selection at work. (explain how it works in this example).
4. What were Darwin’s five theses according to Ernst Mayr?
5. What is Social Darwinism. In what ways does it contradict Darwin’s theory?
6. What factors led to Darwin getting the lion’s share of credit for evolution rather than sharing it with Wallace?
James and Functionalism-American Psychology:
1. How did William James incorporate evolutionary theory into psychology?
2. What did Dewey mean in the reflex arc article when he said mental content (ideas) have to be understood in the larger context of adaptation.?
3. Compare James’ theory of emotion to the common sense theory.
4. What five adjectives did James use to describe consciousness?
5. What did G.S. Hall do first in psychology? (he did more than one thing first)
6. Who was Mary Whiton Calkins? Who did she work with and how was she treated by the Harvard administration.
7. What is the law of effect? In what way does it foreshadow behaviorism without really being behavioristic.?
8. Contrast Francis Sumner with Kenneth Clark. What role do they play in 20th century U. S. History?

Public health messaging is an important consideration in communicating health and disease facts and information.  Targeted messaging and communication are important aspects of promoting health and prevention, while at the same time, protecting the health of the public. This assignment is a culmination of the research you have done throughout this course related to a particular disease or health condition and requires you to create an evidence-based public health message in the form of a social media post.  Organize the facts and/or graphics that you plan to use in your social media post. Be sure to cite your sources! 2. Create the social media post, including at least one image.  Pay close attention to the grading rubric (see below). 3. Save the image as a jpeg or png format. If you are creating a  video, save it as a mp4 or mov.  

Public health messaging is an important consideration in communicating health and disease facts and information.  Targeted messaging and communication are important aspects of promoting health and prevention, while at the same time, protecting the health of the public. This assignment is a culmination of the research you have done throughout this course related to a particular disease or health condition and requires you to create an evidence-based public health message in the form of a social media post. 
Organize the facts and/or graphics that you plan to use in your social media post. Be sure to cite your sources!
2. Create the social media post, including at least one image.  Pay close attention to the grading rubric (see below).
3. Save the image as a jpeg or png format. If you are creating a  video, save it as a mp4 or mov.  
4. Now it is time to actually post the message to your own social media.  After posting, take a screen shot, save the image to a MSWord document and upload to this portal.

you will be discussing various aspects of writing a  Technical Object description. For this assignment, you will create your  initial post and then respond to two of your peers. In your initial  post, you need to answer the following questions in narrative form. What characteristics make the above items technical objects? What is the difference between a technical and a non-technical object? When  writing a description of a technical object, would it be more important  to use subjective language (big, short, ugly, beautiful) or objective  language (18 inches tall, painted red, square base?)

 
For your next major assignment, you will be tasked with writing a  technical object description for an audience who is unfamiliar with the  object, so you will need to think of items that might be considered  technical objects. Some good examples for  that assignment include a clock radio, a digital thermostat, a Roomba, a  CPAP or BIPAP machine, a blender for a food processor.
For  this discussion, you will be discussing various aspects of writing a  Technical Object description. For this assignment, you will create your  initial post and then respond to two of your peers. In your initial  post, you need to answer the following questions in narrative form.

What characteristics make the above items technical objects?
What is the difference between a technical and a non-technical object?
When  writing a description of a technical object, would it be more important  to use subjective language (big, short, ugly, beautiful) or objective  language (18 inches tall, painted red, square base?)
What  technical objects do you use in your work/life that you are familiar  with and could describe to someone who is not familiar with it?

· Explain Social Media’s impact on your personal connection with community. · How is your own sense of identity expressed through utilizing Social Media in regard to your own culture, ethnicity, and status within society? · Have you changed your perspective and/or opinion about a topic after reviewing other’s viewpoints expressed through Social Media?  Provide an example and share how additional information given led you to change your viewpoint or stance on that topic.

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· Explain Social Media’s impact on your personal connection with community.
· How is your own sense of identity expressed through utilizing Social Media in regard to your own culture, ethnicity, and status within society?
· Have you changed your perspective and/or opinion about a topic after reviewing other’s viewpoints expressed through Social Media?  Provide an example and share how additional information given led you to change your viewpoint or stance on that topic.

Why is it important to receive feedback on your writing and research? On a wider scale, why is the peer-review process so important to the field of psychology? What do you think the potential benefits and drawbacks would be if scholarly journal and book editors simply published all manuscripts they received from researchers, without requiring peer-reviews or revise and resubmit requirements?

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Why is it important to receive feedback on your writing and research?
On a wider scale, why is the peer-review process so important to the field of psychology?
What do you think the potential benefits and drawbacks would be if scholarly journal and book editors simply published all manuscripts they received from researchers, without requiring peer-reviews or revise and resubmit requirements?

Apply knowledge of children’s development to create optimal learning environments. (NAEYC) Design, implement, and evaluate developmental and functional environments. (NAEYC) Students will develop plans for an ideal child care center that includes a floor plan with entry, offices/conference rooms, classrooms, teacher only areas, storage, restrooms and playground. You will submit a written plan and a video voice thread presentation

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Apply knowledge of children’s development to create optimal learning environments. (NAEYC)
Design, implement, and evaluate developmental and functional environments. (NAEYC)
Students will develop plans for an ideal child care center that includes a floor plan with entry, offices/conference rooms, classrooms, teacher only areas, storage, restrooms and playground.
You will submit a written plan and a video voice thread presentation
The written plan will be submitted to ICollege and should include program philosophy and goals, management/supervision style, organizational chart and annual budget, organizational chart, curriculum used, program philosophy, budget, number of staff (and titles), staff schedules, number of children and age groups, hours of operation, licensing, accreditation held, for profit or nonprofit, 15 major pieces of equipment that you would purchase for the center with pictures from catalog and description.

Discuss the various reasons system implementation fails. Compare and contrast various change models. Then select a change model to use during system implementation. Provide details of how you will use the change model, and justify why you selected one model over the other models. Explain the various steps that should be included to ensure the change model is effective.

 
Overview
With the justification of an HRIS solidified you need to show your client how you will implement the HRIS using one of the change models discussed in our text. You will also need to explain and justify the cost associated with implementation via a cost-benefit analysis. You want to ensure the system is properly maintained and evaluated for continuous improvement. Therefore, you will include a maintenance and evaluation plan in your proposal.

Change Management

Discuss the various reasons system implementation fails. Compare and contrast various change models. Then select a change model to use during system implementation. Provide details of how you will use the change model, and justify why you selected one model over the other models. Explain the various steps that should be included to ensure the change model is effective.

HRIS Implementation

Discuss the activities that are necessary prior to the system going live, and provide a timeline for these activities. Specify which change management team member will be responsible for each activity, and explain their role.

Cost Benefit Analysis

Create a cost-benefit analysis matrix for the HRIS vendor you chose during Phase III: Design. Analyze the cost justification strategies that you will use to justify the cost of the HRIS, including data that identify each benefit and cost component examined, estimates of the dollar amount for each estimate on when the organization will incur each cost and receive each benefit, and documentation justifying each decision you made in listing these benefits.

Maintenance

Discuss how you will ensure the system is properly maintained and evaluated for continuous improvement.

Resources

Use at least three quality academic resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and similar websites do not qualify as academic resources.

This course requires the use of Strayer Writing Standards (SWS). The library is your home for SWS assistance, including citations and formatting. Please refer to the Library site for all support. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.
The specific course learning outcome associated with this assignment is:

Create an HRIS implementation and maintenance plan that includes a timeline of activities, responsibilities, and a cost-benefit analysis. 3 pages