Week 1 – Assignment Finding Nemo? No, Finding Research This assignment measures your ability on how to assess the quality of various sources of information, distinguish peer-reviewed sources, and how to evaluate their credibility for use in academic research. This assessment also supports your achievement of Course Learning Outcome 1. In this assignment, you will be critically evaluating the quality and credibility of various […]

INSTRUCTIONS: Review the image above and develop a brief essay on the image. Each essay should be a sociological analysis of the image’s core components and their relation to depicting a social issue. Select a minimum of three (3) visual components of the image to build the essay on. First, provide an introduction discussing the discipline of Sociology and how sociologists study social behavior (5-7 sentences). […]

The courts have one of the most important roles in the criminal justice system. They are responsible for the interpretation and application of law when crimes are committed.  They exert some of their greatest influence when it involves due process under the law.  The due process model argues that the greatest concern of the justice system should be providing fair and equitable treatment to those […]

  Unit 3: Analyzing Spread and Variation Discussion  Please complete the following steps for your first discussion post and response. Watch the video Analyzing Spread and Variation (Measures of Center, 2013) In the video, there is an example demonstrating how two similar restaurants have very different patterns of variation. Watch the video. Consider how the video discussed the variation in sales and how that corresponds to what […]

View the following Videos: Frontline World documentary, “Mozambique: Guitar Hero,” and the PBS clip from “Unnatural Causes,” think sociologically about the relationship between inequality and health.  How is health a social problem for residents of Niassa, Mozambique? Compare the state of health in Niassa to that of the urban neighborhoods featured in Helen Epstein’s article, “Ghetto Miasma: Enough to Make You Sick.”  What does “Unnatural […]

   Scenario When promoted to the new vice president of BOLD Flash’s Mobile Division, specializing in high-tech storage components for electronic devices, Roger Cahill understood very clearly that his top priority was to get the struggling division back on track. As he started in on the job, he soon realized that problems with technical communications were a major cause of the division’s other problems. Rapid […]

Horace Mann advocated that a primary social goal of schooling is to provide moral instruction to children in order to reduce the crime rate. Today, prominent social goals of school are to promote morals and character education, to improve children’s health and nutrition and to also create school communities through extracurricular activities, after-school programs and school spirit (Spring, 2018). Many initiatives have been designed to […]

Part 1 Offer a brief memo (100 word) about the technical process you want to describe. You should provide a concise thesis sentence that clearly articulates your topic, one challenge you anticipate in developing your instructions, and the first step that comes to mind. Part 2 Post a very brief memo (100 words or less) that offers a strategy to determine audience needs in technical writing. […]

  Write a 2–page executive briefing of a selected business-related case that has been decided by a state court, a federal court, or the United States Supreme Court. In this introductory course to business law, you will examine real-world court decisions pertinent to the topics that you will be studying.   For this assessment, you will first select an actual business-related legal case that has […]

Take a minute and think about the supervisors you have had in the workplace. What were characteristics of effective supervisors? As you reflect on these experiences, consider how supervision affected your ability to complete the tasks associated with your job. Also, think about how leadership styles can influence the relationship between social workers and their supervisors. For this Assignment, review the Petrakis case study in […]