Category: Essays

4-5 pages, 12 pt, 1-inch margins, double spaced. Please send in standard .doc

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Choose any two of the essays/articles/chapters below. Critically discuss the

authors’ arguments and evaluate each author’s analysis of the topic at hand,

comparing and contrasting different ways of approaching similar issues. Finally,

you will arrive at your own conclusion about which arguments are convincing,

and which are not, and tell me, in your opinion, why certain arguments “hold” and

others don’t when we are trying to analyze the role of sex, gender and sexuality in

society.

Your essay should answer all of the questions below that are relevant to your

argument:

How do these two articles/chapters compare in their approach to the issues at

hand? In what ways are they similar? In what ways are they different? What are

their main arguments? How do they present these arguments and what kind of

evidence do they present to support those arguments?

Is one article/chapter more convincing than the other in its approach to the

issue? If so, how? What evidence are you basing your judgment on?

If you are not convinced by one or any of the arguments, theses or explanations

presented by the author(s), why not? How would this chapter or article benefit

from better evidence or a different analysis? In your opinion, how could it be

explained differently?

If you are convinced by all of the theses, arguments or analyses presented by

the author(s), and do not see a significant difference between their approach, tell

me how they are similar to each other, and why they are so convincing that you

would not do anything differently if you were the author.

Presenting evidence means quoting and paraphrasing the texts appropriately.

Please use full citation every time you quote and paraphrase from the texts, and

attach a full bibliography at the end of your paper.

1) bell hooks. 1996. “is paris burning?” chapter 20 in Reel to Real: Race, Sex and Class

at the Movies, ONLYpp. 214-226

2) Patricia Hill Collins, 2004. “Why Black Sexual Politics?” in Black Sexual Politics:

African Americans, Gender and the New Racism, ONLY pp. 25-52

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You may choose any sports-related article for this assignment, provided that: (1) it comes from a printed magazine, newspaper, or scholarly journal (examples include but are not limited to: Newsweek, New York Times, Chicago Tribune, Sports Illustrated, Journal of Sport Psychology), and (2) you can find something in the article that is relevant to a minimum of three of the following concepts discussed in the course: Data Collection in Sports; Using History to Understand Sports Today; Using History to Understand Sports in the Future; Social Interaction Model; Race and Ethnicity in Sports; Gender Ideology; Deviance in Sports; and Social Class in Sports.
Your paper should include the following:
1.A summary of the article you have chosen; this summary should take up no more than one page of your paper.
2.A description of the concepts from the course that you find relevant in order to explain/interpret the article; this description should take up about one page of your paper.
3.An explanation of how the concepts you have chosen can be applied to your chosen sports article; this section should take up most of the space in your paper.

The paper must be three to four pages in length (excluding the title and reference page), and formatted according to APA style. Make sure that you include an introductory and concluding paragraph in your paper. You must use at least two scholarly sources in addition to the textbook to support your claims and subclaims. Cite your sources in text and on the reference page. For information regarding APA samples and tutorials, visit the Ashford Writing Center, located under the Learning Resources tab on the left navigation toolbar, in your online course.

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http://www.khanacademy.org/economics-finance-domain/core-finance/stock-and-bonds/venture-capital-and-capital-markets/v/raising-money-for-a-startup

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Address the following questions and points in your paper:
a.Who were the main characters in the movies (up to three per movie), what was their racial and ethnic identity? How do you know this was their identity? What was the main plot or storyline of the movie? How was race and ethnicity related to this main storyline?
b. What (if any) stereotypes are expressed in these movies? How so?
c. Compare and contrast the three movies.
d.Thinking about these movies, and being analytic, step back and identify at least two of the following concepts that can be used as a framework to discuss the way that race and ethnicity was represented in the movies: colonization, exploitation, class, structure, culture, acculturation, assimilation, colorblindness, gentrification, segregation, immigration, intersectionality, social mobility, inequality. Provide a discussion about how these concepts are directly or indirectly discussed/implied in the movie.
e.What would an alien from another planet who is not familiar with the U.S. racial paradigm learn about the race/ethnic category of focus in this movie?

Movie links:
1: “High Learning”http://vimeo.com/68446529
2: “Boyz n the hood”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FgrC9kAPxT4
3: “Smoke Signals”http://vimeo.com/77679914

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Essays must be at least 1000 words and not more than 1200 (which is about 3 pages).
Please double space, use 12-point font and 1-inch margins.
You do not need to cite references, but you are expected to use the concepts and language covered in the textbook.
Essays are submitted via Turn-It-In in Blackboard
The due date for the essay is presented in the course timeline
Your essay must address to the following questions:
What question is each film addressing? Are the questions well stated? Are they clear and unbiased?
What relevant evidence, experiences, and/or information addressing the questions is presented?
Does each film develop a definite line of reasoning, explaining how conclusions were reached? Describe the lines of reasoning
In each film is the reasoning well- supported? Explain why or why not.
Which narrator did the best job of convincing you of his point? What did this narrator say/do to convince you of his point of view? What could the other narrator have done to better make his point?
The last paragraph (i.e., the conclusion) should sum up your opinion of the quality of the arguments made in the films.
This is a compare and contrast essay, do not simply answer the questions, think about them and the two films in relation to one another

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12. The novel also incorporates (and mashes up) aspects of other genres, both fictional genres and visual genres. (Some possibilities: folktale, coming of age story, graphic novel, mystery or detective story, comedy, tragedy, documentary, journal, epistolary novel, and many more you can identify on your own.) Others (like doodling, scrapbooking, joke-telling, and others) are not conventional genres, but Foer appropriates them cleverly for his purposes. Choose two different genres and explain what features of Extremely Loud reference or exploit those genres. Then explain what Foer has done to bend, subvert, combine, or repurpose these elements. Use your knowledge of postmodernism to try to describe and account for this revision or combination.

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ESSAY INFO:

Discuss the advantage and disadvantage of the following hospital payment systems on cost containment and provider behavior:

• Fee-for-service
• Per diem
• The DRG-based payment system (i.e., Medicare’s Inpatient Prospective Payment System)
• Capitation
SLP Assignment Expectations:
• Cite all sources and provide a reference list at the end of the paper.

REFERENCE/ INFO

Medicare Payment Advisory Commission. (2010). Medicare Payment Basics: Hospital Acute Inpatient Services Payment System. Available at http://www.medpac.gov/documents/MedPAC_Payment_Basics_10_hospital.pdf (Retrieved 11/21/2012)

Medicare Payment Advisory Commission. (2010). Medicare Payment Basics: Outpatient Hospital Services Payment System. Available at http://www.medpac.gov/documents/MedPAC_Payment_Basics_10_OPD.pdf (Retrieved 11/21/2012)

Centers for Medicare and Medicaid. (2010). Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System. The Medicare Learning Network Payment Systems Fact Sheet Series. Available at http://www.cms.gov/MLNProducts/downloads/HospitalOutpaysysfctsht.pdf (Retrieved 11/21/2012)

Centers for Medicare and Medicaid. (2009). Acute Care Hospital Inpatient Prospective Payment System. The Medicare Learning Network Payment Systems Fact Sheet Series. Available at http://www.cms.gov/MLNProducts/downloads/AcutePaymtSysfctsht.pdf (Retrieved 11/21/2012)

Office for Oregon Health Policy and Research. (2008). Healthcare Payment Reform & Provider Reimbursement: A Summary of Strategies for Consideration by the Oregon Health Fund Board. Available at http://www.oregon.gov/OHPPR/HFB/Delivery/Payment_Reform_Provider_Reimbursement_Paper.pdf?ga=t (Retrieved 11/21/2012)

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Paying for Hospital Services

Mrs. Smith is a 70-year-old hospitalized for a Kidney Transplant procedure. General Hospital is a large urban hospital in San Francisco that incurred $150,000 in Medicare-approved charges in treating Mrs. Smith. Use the information provided in this module as well as the Hospital Payments Example, which can be found in the Module 4 Presentation section, to answer the following questions. Include all formulas and calculations in your paper.

DRG Description Case Weight
115 Permanent Cardiac Pacemaker 3.5513
302 Kidney Transplant 4.1370
441 Hand Procedure/Surgery 0.8785

Answer the following questions for Kidney Transplant only:

1. What is the operating payment to be paid to the hospital?
2. What is the capital payment to be paid to the hospital?
3. Will the hospital be eligible for the Medicare outlier payment?
4. What is the total payment to the hospital?

REFERENCE/ INFO
Medicare Payment Advisory Commission. (2010). Medicare Payment Basics: Hospital Acute Inpatient Services Payment System. Available at http://www.medpac.gov/documents/MedPAC_Payment_Basics_10_hospital.pdf (Retrieved 11/21/2012)

Medicare Payment Advisory Commission. (2010). Medicare Payment Basics: Outpatient Hospital Services Payment System. Available at http://www.medpac.gov/documents/MedPAC_Payment_Basics_10_OPD.pdf (Retrieved 11/21/2012)

Centers for Medicare and Medicaid. (2010). Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System. The Medicare Learning Network Payment Systems Fact Sheet Series. Available at http://www.cms.gov/MLNProducts/downloads/HospitalOutpaysysfctsht.pdf (Retrieved 11/21/2012)

Centers for Medicare and Medicaid. (2009). Acute Care Hospital Inpatient Prospective Payment System. The Medicare Learning Network Payment Systems Fact Sheet Series. Available at http://www.cms.gov/MLNProducts/downloads/AcutePaymtSysfctsht.pdf (Retrieved 11/21/2012)

Office for Oregon Health Policy and Research. (2008). Healthcare Payment Reform & Provider Reimbursement: A Summary of Strategies for Consideration by the Oregon Health Fund Board. Available at http://www.oregon.gov/OHPPR/HFB/Delivery/Payment_Reform_Provider_Reimbursement_Paper.pdf?ga=t (Retrieved 11/21/2012)

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Compare and contrast “solutions” to any aspect of a tension or conflict between “Islam” and “the West” in TWO works we’ve read in the second half of the semester, supplementing your analysis with examples.
Choose from Said (1978); Said (1981); Gerges (2010); Ramadan (2009); Shepherd (2006); Hunt (2002); Abu-Lughod (2013); MacMaster (2003).
Please note that in your TWO selections, you may only choose ONE of the works by Said. Also note that even if the authors may not directly recommend specific “solutions,” but you may use their works to recommend solutions yourself.
Please use size 11 or 12 font, double-spaced. Also use APA citation style, with in-text citations and a list of references at the end of the paper. You need cite news articles for examples to strengthen your argument, but DO NOT use other scholarly sources outside the course readings indicated above.
Begin with a clear introduction that includes a thesis statement, and wrap up your argument with a clear conclusion.

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Identify an area of HR data that you will investigate, (such as absence data, records of new starters or leavers, performance appraisal statistics), the time period you intend to investigate and the part of the organisation you will focus on. Analyse this data to identify any trends, patterns, causes and present your findings in a written statement, with relevant supporting documents for example bar charts to illustrate the analyses.
there is a spreadsheet and it has to be compared year 2012/2013 absence for example gender, departments and compare the data in bar charts, then write a essay of 250words min explaining and giving feedback making the analyses.

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