The Steppingstone Foundation: Expanding to New Geographies While Maintaining High-Quality Results According to the Bridgespan Group (2004): The Steppingstone Foundation has generated impressive results with students in the Boston area but has had a difficult time exporting its model to another city. Insufficient local fundraising, unclear leadership, and disappointing results plagued the pilot expansion. The organization has scaled back its plans for geographic expansion and […]

It is imperative for psychology students to learn how to create informed consent and debriefing forms that adequately state the purpose of studies to the participants in an ethical manner. In your capstone class, it is an expectation that you have a created a consent and debriefing form for your research proposal. It will be beneficial if you create this assignment around the topic you […]

1. Select a prevalent health issue discussed in the lecture or required reading for this unit. Using this health issue, provide one example for each of the six building blocks of the health belief model (HBM). Your response should be at least 300 words in length.  2. Imagine you are a community health educator. Select a prevalent health issue discussed in the lecture or required […]

1- ( The first step in your proposal for a secure videoconferencing system is to develop a set of functional requirements for videoconferencing that you believe the media company will need based on its geographic dispersion and business needs. In developing those requirements, research three videoconferencing solutions such as Skype, GotoMeeting, Polycom, and Cisco Webex and explain their capabilities, advantages, and disadvantages. Identify costs as […]

  Data Management After studying this week’s assigned readings, discussion the following: 1.  What are the business costs or risks of poof data quality? Support your discussion with at least 3 references. 2.  What is data mining? Support your discussion with at least 3 references. 3.  What is text mining? Support your discussion with at least 3 references. Please use APA throughout.  350 words minimum with proper references […]

  Select three types of prostitution. Create a 6- to 8-slide PowerPoint presentation   (including a title and reference slide) addressing the following: Define the types of prostitution. Reasons     contributing to a person becoming a prostitute. Discuss     where each type tends to exist. Typical clientele for each     type of prostitution. Include at least two scholarly references in your presentation.  Within the last 5 years. Include speaker […]

  Create a PowerPoint® presentation of 12 slides that you will present in an urban, racially diverse high school. Compare and contrast each term: discrimination, prejudice, racism, institutional racism, and stereotyping. Make the presentation relevant to the lives of urban students in a racially diverse school. Include the following: Introduction and conclusion slides Detailed speaker notes Graphics Specific content referring to the lives of students […]

1. “ATTRACTIONS VS. STORIES”  Read the Tom Gunning article carefully and discuss the tension between the popular “Cinema of Attractions” that Gunning discusses and the desire for stories.  How did technological breakthroughs contribute to either of these audiences desires? *****you don’t need to be in judgement re technology and distribution/audiences etc.  The overall thrust of the paper is not a judgement on technology. The big […]

  According to Creswell (2009), quantitative research is a “means for testing objective theories by examining the relationship among variables that can be measured and analyzed using statistical procedures.” Qualitative research, Creswell posits, is a “means for exploring and understanding the meaning individuals or groups ascribe to social or human problems.” Consider the phenomenon of pain. Ethics committees and institutional review boards do not allow […]

Primary Source Document Analysis The European occupation of colonies across the globe required a sense of Christian duty and capitalist ambition. There was also a sense of racist disregard for local cultures. It is not a story of villains and heroes, but one of millions of people seeking security for themselves and sometimes relying on great violence and exploitation. The nuances are quite complex. This […]