Identify the top five polluters and the top five chemicals released in your county.  

This lab activity follows up on this week’s discussion topics and gives you an opportunity to consider polluters in your community.
 
Visit Scorecard: The Pollution Information Site (http://scorecard.goodguide.com) and/or U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (http://www.epa.gov/)
 
Identify the top five polluters and the top five chemicals released in your county.   (Louisiana)
 
Determine the number of Superfund sites in your area.
 
Based on the information you find on these sites, list five ways that you can take action in your community.
 
Search for the “Sustainable Business” lab in Contemporary Environmental Issues. Read Procedure 1. Then, complete Lab Questions 1a through 1d. Submit your answers in a Word document formatted according to APA style.

Why is it important to evaluate sources for credibility, reliability, and bias? What are possible consequences for not evaluating sources for these items?  

 
Why is it important to evaluate sources for credibility, reliability, and bias? What are possible consequences for not evaluating sources for these items?
 
Why is it important to evaluate sources for credibility, reliability, and bias? What are possible consequences for not evaluating sources for these items?

Determine how human capital is used and what effect gender disparity has on these decisions.

SOC300 Assignment 2 Lending Institutions, Health Care, and Human Capital
 Week 9 Assignment 2 Submission
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Assignment 2: Lending Institutions, Health Care, and Human CapitalDue Week 9 and worth 200 points
Use the Internet to research one (1) developing nation of your choice. Your research should include an examination of lending institutions, health care, and human capital, as well as the material covered by the Webtext and lectures in Weeks 6 through 9.
Write a three to four (3-4) page research paper in which you:
1.        Explore whether or not funding from international lending institutions like the World Bank and the IMF are helping or hindering the social, economic, or political development of the country that you have selected. Support your response with examples.
2.        Discuss, with examples, at least four (4) substantive ways in which a healthy population strengthens the economy of the country that you have selected.
3.        Ascertain the degree to which the leadership of your chosen country has used foreign aid to improve its health care system. Support your response with concrete examples.
4.        Use at least five (5) quality academic resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia, blogs, and other nonacademic websites do not qualify as academic resources. Approval of resources is at the instructor’s discretion. Resources must also be within the last seven (7) years.
When referencing the selected resources, please use the following format: 
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Name of the author. Name of title. Retrieved from website url.

Soomo. Understanding Development [Webtext]. Retrieved from http://www.webtexts.com/courses/9218-cathey.

Lecture Format:

Name of the Author. Name of the lecture [lecture type]. Retrieved from lecture url.

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Strayer University. (2013). Understanding Development [PowerPoint slides]. Retrieved from /bbcswebdav/institution/SOC/300/1136/Week1/lecture/story.html.
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Author’s Name. (Date of publication). Title of the resource. Retrieved from website url.

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Wuestewald, Eric. (2014). Portraits of people living on a dollar a day. Retrieved from http://www.motherjones.com/mixed-media/2014/04/living-on-a-dollar-a-day-photos-renee-byer-thomas-nazario.
Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:

Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references must follow APA or school-specific format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions. 
Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required assignment page length.

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

Determine how human capital is used and what effect gender disparity has on these decisions.
Determine what role health plays in developing economies.
Examine the role that the International Monetary Fund and World Bank play in transfers and the conditions they set to effect this funding.
Use technology and information resources to research issues in sociology of developing countries.
Write clearly and concisely about sociology of developing countries using proper writing mechanics.

Explain the impact of stress and emotional labor on the individuals and the organization.

Overview:For this assignment, you will look at a case study titled Getting Emotional: The Case of American Express. Prepare a written response to the prompt below using a word processor. Please save your file in .doc or .docx format. Your paper should be complete and should comply with APA writing requirements.For more guidance about APA formatting, please visit the  APA Resources folder in the Student Resources course menu tab.*To view the grading rubric for this assignment, click on the name of the assignment and click “View Rubric”Instructions:

Read the following case study. This study looks at emotional labor and stress:

7.7 Getting Emotional: The Case of American Express

Answer the following questions in detail:

What are some other jobs that deal with relatively negative or unfavorable emotions daily?
In what type of job might American Express’s open emotion policy not be acceptable?
How can understanding emotional labor help with this situation for employees and managers?
What would you suggest that they do at American Express to help their employees better manage stress?

Make sure to outline how your solution can specifically help this problem.  
Explain the impact of stress and emotional labor on the individuals and the organization.

Based on your research, on Game-Based Learning (GBL), create a project on your innovation topic in the format of your choice. Provide a brief overview of the innovation. What is the goal of using it with students?

Based on your research, on Game-Based Learning (GBL), create a project on your innovation topic in the format of your choice. Your project should address the following:
Provide a brief overview of the innovation. What is the goal of using it with students?
How does this innovation incorporate current information about how we learn? Or, how does it contradict what we know about how we learn?
Would you recommend this innovation for adoption in classrooms and schools? Why or why not?
 
Format for project
A research brief on the topic for convincing colleagues, principals, and others of the research behind your idea
Your project should include a minimum of four sources, one of which must be peer-reviewed primary research. 

Identify the strengths, weaknesses, threats, opportunities and their impact on a multi-cultural workforce.

 Description
You will create this assignment following the Assignment Detail instructions below.
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Assignment Details

Infographics are visual representations of information, knowledge, or data to present information. Graphics intend to assist the audience with understanding the data presented.
A team’s success or failure depends on its individual members’ behaviors. Negative behavior by one team member can be enough to derail the success of the team. Every team member or workgroup has an ethical responsibility to take one’s duties seriously. In reviewing you leadership development plan, you decide to add a component that addresses team building from an ethical perspective. You want to guide the team development that supports a culture of ethics in the workplace.
For Part 4 of the report on ethics, you will create a 1-page informative infographic using no less than 7 terms associated with the team building stages and their impact on a multi-cultural workforce. Watch the following video about how to create an infographic:
Conduct a 4-page analysis that addresses the following:

Examine each term.
Explain why each term is significant to the ethical leadership of a multi-cultural workforce.
Identify the strengths, weaknesses, threats, opportunities and their impact on a multi-cultural workforce.

Submitting your assignment in APA format means, at a minimum, you will need the following:

Title page: Remember the running head. The title should be in all capitals.
Length: 5 pages minimum
Body: This begins on the page following the title page and must be double-spaced (be careful not to triple- or quadruple-space between paragraphs). The typeface should be 12-pt. Times Roman or 12-pt. Courier in regular black type. Do not use color, bold type, or italics, except as required for APA-level headings and references. The deliverable length of the body of your paper for this assignment is 5 pages. In-body academic citations to support your decisions and analysis are required. A variety of academic sources is encouraged.
Reference page: References that align with your in-body academic sources are listed on the final page of your paper. The references must be in APA format using appropriate spacing, hanging indent, italics, and uppercase and lowercase usage as appropriate for the type of resource used. Remember, the Reference page is not a bibliography but a further listing of the abbreviated in-body citations used in the paper. Every referenced item must have a corresponding in-body citation.

Explain Skomilowski’s idea of technological progress and scientific progress. How “progress”  in science and technology can be used as a criterion to illustrate the differences between them. 

Please answer these questions in paragraph form using my included article. Please paraphrase instead of quotation marks. Please make it about 700 words long.
Explain Skomilowski’s idea of technological progress and scientific progress.
How “progress”  in science and technology can be used as a criterion to illustrate the differences between them. 

Explain the 2 dimensions of conceptualizing these disorders.

The number of children through adolescence with SED (severe and impairing emotional disorders and/or behavioral problems) is signficant.
1. Explain the 2 dimensions of conceptualizing these disorders.
2. Using additional resources (2 minimum, but not Wikipedia or WebMD), support or refute the premise that the numbers of children with SEDs is signficant.
3. Provide an analysis of the potential causes and treatments for the observed numbers of children or adolescents with SEDs. You may include holistic perspectives if supportive documentation is provided. Remember that you must provide a thorough analysis of causes and treatments for several externalizing and internalizing disorders.

1. Explain the 2 dimensions of conceptualizing these disorders. 2. What is the target BP for patients with diabetes and hypertension? 3. Which antihypertensive agents are recommended for patients with diabetes?ers.

  
Instructions: Answer the reflective questions. 
1. Explain the 2 dimensions of conceptualizing these disorders.
2. What is the target BP for patients with diabetes and hypertension?
3. Which antihypertensive agents are recommended for patients with diabetes?
Requirements:
– Formatted and cited in current APA 7 
– The discussion must address the topic
– Rationale must be provided
– Use at least 600 words (no included 1st page or references in the 600 words)
– Use 3 academic sources. Not older than 5 years
– Not Websites are allowed.
– Plagiarism is NOT allowed

Describe the benefit and alignment of outsourcing services on organizational culture.

 the scenarios is scenarios 1
Many companies benefit from outsourcing services because it allows the company to lower costs, focus on its organizational culture, and increase the speed and quality of services. You have been asked to analyze how the outsourced service interacts with your company’s clients.
Read and select 1 of the following scenarios to complete the assignment:

In 2009, the U.S. Stimulus Act changed the way health care providers use electronic health records (EHR). A local clinic was informed that to avoid penalties it would need to adopt a qualified EHR system. The clinic managers discussed two options: 1) adopting an in house EHR system and 2) outsourcing the EHRs. After weighing the pros and cons of each option, the company decided to outsource the EHRs.
Recent research shows that many companies are starting to explore the idea of outsourcing for their human resources department. A large pharmaceutical company has begun discussing outsourcing their human resources department. 
Atwood Laboratories is a small company that completes lab work and bills its patients using two staff members. A larger laboratory in the neighborhood closed its doors recently, which has increased Atwood’s patients and billing. The company is considering outsourcing its patient billing to accommodate the influx of patients.g:

Identify the relationship of the outsourced service and the impact to the organizational structure.
Describe the benefit and alignment of outsourcing services on organizational culture.
Describe how a company can align the client experience with the outsourced service along with your organizational culture.