Respond to the following questions to help you reflect on your experiences in this class and how they have affected you.

INSTRUCTIONS: Respond to the following questions to help you reflect on your experiences in this class and how they have affected you. Your responses should be at least 5- 8 sentences per response.

Who were you as a writer and academic (scholar) at the beginning of the semester?
How have you progressed as both an academic (scholar) and writer?
How did you overcome any difficulties this semester?
When do you foresee yourself using the skills you learned this semester?
Why does this reflection matter and how can it help you?

Briefly explain Corrigan’s model of the stages of stigma and his recommendations and hierarchy about recovery.

Assignment: Diagnosis: The Burden of Stigma in Help Seeking

The threat of public stigma, as well as self-stigma, can prevent individuals from receiving the mental health treatment they need. In this Assignment, you analyze the influence of stigma on experiences with and treatment of mental illness.

To prepare: Watch the TED Talk by Sangu Delle and then review the readings for this week. https://www.ted.com/talks/sangu_delle_there_s_no_shame_in_taking_care_of_your_mental_health/transcript

Focus on Delle’s examples illustrating Corrigan’s model about the stages of stigma and the hierarchy of disclosure. Consider Delle’s experience against that model.

Submit 3 pages that addresses the following:

Briefly explain Corrigan’s model of the stages of stigma and his recommendations and hierarchy about recovery.
Explain whether Delle’s experience follows that model. Use specific examples to argue your perspective. If you agree, identify which stage of recovery Delle is in.
Analyze Delle’s reports about his own experiences with both types of stigma. Provide specific examples, and in your analysis consider the following questions:
Does one type of stigma predominate in his talk?
Which of Delle’s personal values or beliefs were challenged by his internalizations about his own illness and help-seeking?
What strengths does he exhibit?
What was the primary benefit of his diagnosis?
Do you think his experience would be different if his culture was different? Explain why or why not?

Outline a business strategy for Fashion Land’s online business initiative.

As manager of networks and computing operations for Fashion Land, a retailer of women’s clothing and accessories, you have seen the business grow from seven stores in Kansas City to over 100 stores located throughout the Midwest. Fashion Land’s marketing research team realizes that the majority of its target customer group—females between the ages of 13 and 35—are regular users of the Web. The researchers have asked you for help in developing an electronic commerce initiative for Fashion Land. Alone, or in a team assigned by your instructor, do the following:

a. Outline a business strategy for Fashion Land’s online business initiative. The outline should include a list of specific objectives and the costs and benefits of accomplishing each objective. The outline should also include recommendations regarding what to outsource and what staff should be hired.

b. Prepare a memo that lists and briefly describes the major hardware, software, security, payment processing, advertising, international, legal, and ethical issues that might arise in the development of this electronic commerce site..

Describe your target market for your product

This assignment requires you to develop a brief marketing plan. This needs to be submitted as a powerpoint presentation only.

Your assignment needs to have the following components:

1. The name and location of your company. (This can be a business you are involved in or one that you are thinking about starting. It can list the city only as the location)

2. Describe your target market for your product

3. Describe why you have selected this location to target (Based on desired demographics)

4. What will be your brand (You can create an actual brand or discuss the components that you are using to build your brand)

5. How will you price your product (include what pricing strategies you will use)

Cite examples of how older adults can compensate for age-related physical declines.

1. Cite examples of how older adults can compensate for age-related physical declines.

2. Cite evidence that both genetic and environmental factors contribute to Alzheimer’s disease and cerebrovascular dementia.

3. Describe cognitive functions that are maintained or improve in late adulthood. What aspects of aging contribute to them?

4. Cite features of neighborhoods and residential communities that enhance elders’ life satisfaction.

5. Why is adjustment to late-life divorce usually more difficult for women and adjustment to widowhood more difficult for men?

6. What psychological and workplace factors predict favorable adjustment to retirement?

7. Explain why older adults think and talk more about death than do younger people but feel less anxious about it.

What are the elements of effective learning environments?

Questions

What are the foundations of reading instruction? How are these foundational components interrelated?
What is the relevance of oral language acquisition, oral language proficiency and learning to read?
What is dyslexia?
What are appropriate strategies that support early literacy acquisition, including principles of Universal Design for Learning (UDL), to address all learners including those with dyslexia?
What are the processes, skills, and stages of word recognition and literacy development? How do these processes, skills, and stages relate to assessment and instruction? How do these processes, skills, and stages relate to ELL students and students with special needs including those with dyslexia?
What are the elements of effective learning environments?
Sources:

Anything in reading rockets

http://www.readingrockets.org/article/young-childrens-oral-language-development

http://www.readingrockets.org/shows/launching/brain

https://www.edutopia.org/article/accommodating-students-dyslexia?gclid=EAIaIQobChMI9bOT-6XY3wIVA1uGCh2DXgWYEAAYAiAAEgIVIfD_BwE

Based on fundamentals create a forecast for these exchange rates.

You provide foreign exchange consulting services using economic fundamental data. Your client would like to have an idea about the US dollar and Mexican peso and US dollar and Euro exchange rates six months in the future. Based on fundamentals create a forecast for these exchange rates. To accomplish this you should do the following:

a) Plot the exchange rates and try to identify patterns that can be projected to the future.

b) Get the following economic data for each country including the US: inflation, balance on the current account, interest rates and GDP growth rates.

c) Use the economic data to assess where the exchange rates will be in 6 months.

d) Run a regression between the exchange rate and 2 economic variables. Use the regression to forecast the exchange rate.

2. The client GE sold $300 million in turbines to a Mexican utility payable in 6 months and $500 million to a German utility payable in 1 year.

a) Compute the dollar proceeds from the sales if GE decides to hedge using forward contracts.

b) Compute the dollar proceeds from the sales if GE decides to hedge foreign exchange exposure using options.

Propose a solution that addresses the identified problem in your case

Systems Design:

Propose a solution that addresses the identified problem in your case. Be sure to include screenshots of all relevant diagrams, charts, and tables.

a) Specifications: Provide a physical design that will meet the specifications outlined in the systems requirement document.

b) Data Design: Create entity relationship diagrams (ERDs) that accurately describe the proposed solution, including 3NF table designs.

c) User Interface Design: Illustrate the user interface design. Specifically, be sure to address your proposed human computer interactions (HCIs) and graphical user interfaces (GUIs). Your proposals should follow user-centered design principles and address all design requirements.

d) System Architecture: Describe the system architecture. Specifically, be sure to address the corporate organization and culture, enterprise resource planning, total cost of ownership, scalability, integration and interface requirements, and security.

e) Feasibility Analysis: Provide supporting details that justify why your proposed solution is appropriate for solving the problem. In your defense, be sure to address operational, technical, economic, and scheduling feasibility. Be sure that you frame your response for communicating effectively to your target audiences.

Design a comprehensive best-practices policy list

It is widely known that knowledge management systems are key to success in multinational companies. Imagine that you are vice president of a company that is ramping up to go global.

Your task is to design a comprehensive best-practices policy list for managing existing knowledge and any new knowledge as it becomes available. The best-practices policy should include a task list that will help your company to handle unexpected events such as earthquakes, demonstrations, and bomb threats as well as mundane issues of conducting business in any country or countries into which you will be expanding. The policy list should also take any unique challenges that your company may face into account.

Please choose one of the following industries for this assignment:

Jewelry.
Apparel.
Chemicals.
Consumer electronics or electronic components.
Medical supplies or equipment.
Bins, totes, crates, material handling.
Food products.
Pharmaceuticals.
Children’s clothing, toys, and other products.

Design a comprehensive best-practices policy list that includes policies on the following:
Sanitation (hand washing, toilet facilities, etc.).
Eating and drinking (at desks, on the company grounds, inside in the manufacturing area at designated locations, etc.).
Conflict resolution (mediation and/or arbitration with designated mediator on staff, etc.).
In-house team leadership and meeting management (e.g., minimum meeting times, scribes, appointed leaders).
Online team (24-hour coverage on phone due to time differences, etc.).
Security (e.g., leaving doors open, locks, key return policy for departing workers).
Emergency evacuation procedures.
Determine the key benefits of creating such policies. Provide a rationale for your response.
Speculate on the major ramifications if such policies are not created. Provide a rationale for your response.
Predict the significant ways in which the best-practices policy that you created will contribute toward the long-term sustainability of the company. Provide a rationale for your response.
Determine whether your best-practices policy would provide a competitive advantage over other international companies. Provide one example of a company’s best-practices policy to support your response.
Use at least three quality academic resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and other similar websites do not qualify as academic resources.