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Domestic Violence Paper

Advocates for domestic violence survivors discuss their role.

Include your thoughts on their effectiveness.

Are they helpful or not needed?

Provide examples to support the position

Personal Statement for Masters In Project Management

Use the attached file for more information

Gastrointestinal and Hepatobiliary Disorders

McCance, K. L. & Huether, S. E. (2019). Pathophysiology: The biologic basis for disease in adults and children (8th ed.). St. Louis, MO:
Mosby/Elsevier.
Chapter 38: Structure and Function of the Renal and Urological Systems including Summary Review
Chapter 39: Alteration of Renal and Urinary Function (stop at Fluids and electrolytes); Summary Review
Chapter 41: Structure and Function of the Digestive System (stop at Tests of digestive function); Summary Review
Chapter 42: Alterations of Digestive Function (stop at Cancer of the digestive track); Summary Review

A 64-year-old Caucasian female presents to the clinic with vague symptoms of non- specific abdominal pain, myalgias, constipation, polyuria

A 64-year-old Caucasian female presents to the clinic with vague symptoms of non- specific abdominal pain, myalgias, constipation, polyuria, and says she feels “fuzzy headed” much of the time. She had a fracture of her right metatarsal without trauma and currently is wearing a walking boot. She also had a bout of kidney stones a few weeks ago and she fortunately was able to pass the small stones without requiring lithotripsy or other interventions. She was told by the urologist to follow up with her primary care provider after the kidney stones has resolved.

The APRN examining the patient orders a Chem 12 which revealed a serum Ca++ of 13.1 mg/dl. The APRN believes the patient has primary hyperparathyroidism and refers the patient to an endocrinologist who does a complete work up and concurs with the APRN’s diagnosis.

Question 1 of 2:

Explain the processes involved in the formation of renal stones in patients with hyperparathyroidism. 

Question 2 of 2:

Explain how a patient with hyperparathyroidism is at risk for bone fractures.  

Case Study KPIs and Incentives

Lance Wilkins is a retired account manager who used to work in the sales department of a television broadcaster. For decades, he made his living selling television advertising spots. He’d had a successful career, and, looking back at it, he considered himself lucky. During the last few years before retiring, he had witnessed a gradual shift in the viewing habits of the population. People started to watch less TV and spend more time online. TV program ratings took a hit, and advertisers did the logical thing: they cut their ad budgets for TV and increased them for online advertising. That meant that Lance’s job got harder and harder.

Lance retired the day he reached the minimum retirement age. He decided to move on to a new phase of his life: instead of riding quietly into the sunset, he took his retirement savings and invested in something he had been considering for years—he bought a small motel on the Florida coast. Lance was convinced he could easily manage a simple business like a motel without a restaurant, and fancied becoming an owner of a resort motel where he could oversee a business and feel like he was on a perpetual vacation at the same time. The reality proved to be somewhat different from that happy dream, however.

The property that Lance purchased was a 65-room motel called The Windjammer. Lance decided to make no personnel changes and to keep all 20 of the motel’s staff members, who all seemed to be decent, hard-working, reliable individuals. Lance himself had never worked in a hotel or motel before, so he studied the reports and financial statements of The Windjammer carefully in order to develop an understanding of the business.

Lance noticed that on most nights the motel had a large number of unsold rooms. It intrigued him that 25 to 30 units frequently stayed vacant while the other rooms were sold successfully. Why couldn’t all or almost all of the rooms be sold? He decided to do something to address that question, and, being a former salesman, he understood the importance of motivation. He talked to Barbara, who was in charge of the front office. It was Wednesday of the first week in March. He offered her an incentive in the form of a performance bonus for each sold-out night for the rest of the month.

“I think it’s possible to fill the motel, provided I have the flexibility to use different price points,” suggested Barbara. Lance told her he wanted to sell out on as many nights as possible and authorized Barbara to use whatever tactics she saw fit—after all, she was the one with the industry experience. They agreed to discuss the March results early in April.

One day in the first week of April, Lance and Barbara reviewed the motel’s reports for March over cups of coffee in the back office behind the front desk. The Windjammer’s occupancy rate showed a record high for the whole month. The motel had produced a monthly occupancy of 86 percent! Lance could hardly contain his satisfaction. Fourteen sold-out nights! They came really close to a full house on a number of other nights as well. Lance congratulated Barbara on a job well done and handed her an envelope with a check. The performance bonus was well deserved, he thought.

Lance kept studying the monthly reports after Barbara returned to her post at the front desk. He was pleased with himself and couldn’t stop smiling—until he saw the report on room rates. He cleaned his glasses and took a closer look at the printout, because he didn’t believe his eyes at first. The motel’s posted room rate was $75 in March. After all group discounts, senior discounts, and agency commissions were factored in, Lance expected the average net rate for March to be at least in the high $50 range. Anything over $56 would have been fine with him. However, The Windjammer’s net rate was only $32.18. Lance couldn’t believe it. Clearly, Barbara had discounted frequently and heavily to sell out.

After some time for reflection and more coffee, Lance realized that March’s incentive for Barbara had involved only one key variable, which could account for the problem. He wanted to be a shrewd hotelier, and, after a chat with Barbara, she accepted the new challenge for the new month. Lance would pay her a performance bonus for April if the motel’s ADR reached $60 or more.

April was a month of softer demand, but as far as Lance was concerned the motel had a good chance to keep its rates up. A competitor motel in the area started an extensive renovation project and closed down half of its rooms as well as its outdoor pool. Also, the new highway sign for The Windjammer was finally put up, and Lance had high hopes for that as well.

April was not as busy as March had been. Anyone could see that by simply looking at the number of cars in the motel’s parking lot, which Lance had a habit of doing each night. He also noticed that the vehicle models were somewhat different in April: he saw old, beat-up cars less frequently than he had in March and noted more new-looking SUVs and import autos. He prepared for the end-of-the-month meeting with Barbara with eager anticipation.

At the meeting, Lance was impressed by the increased ADR for April. He congratulated Barbara for reaching a record ADR of $67.48, and handed her another bonus. Clearly, Barbara had stopped the practice of indiscriminate heavy  discounting; this change had resulted in a dramatic ADR turnaround. In fact, she had not made any rooms available to OTAs, so the ADR was also the net rate.

Unfortunately, it was not only the ADR that changed dramatically in April. The motel’s monthly occupancy took a nose dive, dropping to 41 percent—less than half of the occupancy in March!

Lance scratched his head. He was learning the lodging business the hard way, he thought ruefully. He considered reading up on room statistics and hotel data analytics. He had recently heard about a key performance indicator called RevPAR that he needed to investigate further, and he also had read about the importance of monitoring variable costs. He knew it cost him, on average, $16 to clean one guestroom. He decided he’d better run some financial reports and look them over before discussing the next performance bonus with Barbara.

 

Discussion Questions

Question 1

1. Which RevPAR is better for a hotel owner and/or a hotel manager: the one in March or the one in April? Is there a meaningful difference?

 

2. Take the March hotel data (rate, occupancy, variable cost per room) and calculate it: what occupancy would be required in April with the new increased ADR to generate identical net room revenue?
3. Take the April hotel data (rate, occupancy, variable cost per room) and calculate it: what occupancy would be required to generate identical net room revenue with the lower ADR of March?
4. What did Lance learn after he developed the first and second performance incentives for Barbara?

 

History of Israel Palestine and the Arab/Israeli/Palestinian conflict

In your paper, analyze the following two documents: Leon Pinsker, Autoemancipation (1882), from the Jewish Virtual Library, http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Zionism/pinsker.html (Links to an external site.) Simon Dubnow, “Autonomism” (1901), JMW, 397-399, CPreview the document (in the attachment)

The paper should begin with a clear thesis as to the significance of these sources, and how they can be used to shed light on the history of Israel, Palestine and the Arab/Israeli/Palestinian conflict. The paper should compare and contrast the two sources, considering their context, who wrote the sources, when and why. For this paper, unlike your midterm and final exams, you can use outside, scholarly sources to learn more about Pinsker and Dubnow. Make sure the information you use is from a scholarly source, and is carefully cited. Wikipedia can point you in the right direction, but does not count as a scholarly source.

Your paper should have lots of citations/footnotes, ideally a few per paragraph, some of which should be well selected quotations and analyzed quotations. Other citations should be specific points from the readings restated in your own words. Quotations should support your argument in the paper as a whole. When you quote the author’s words verbatim, you should also analyze those specific words: if that analysis doesn’t seem necessary, paraphrase.

This paper will be graded based on the following criteria:

Argument

Thesis is clearly stated. It is specific enough to be interesting and direct your analysis. It is not simply a statement of a topic (e.g. “The sources show how Arabs and Jews have been in conflict” or “Primary sources are useful for historical analysis”) but rather a statement of an argument (with the above example: “The conflict between Arab and Jewish communities within and beyond Palestine has been expressed in X and Y specific ways which changed in Z ways over time.

Use of sources

This paper should contextualize the primary sources with information from other readings, including Gelvin and Shapira. It may include outside sources. All sources must be used in a precise way, with page numbers and clear citations. The analysis must be based on details from sources rather than long stretches of broader speculation not based on sources.

Structure: The paper has a logical flow: paragraphs are divided up in a logical way and lead in a clear way from one to the next.

Style

Paper is well written with few typos. Sentences make sense—if you read the paper out loud to your friend they would be able to follow the argument.

Analyze Website for Sustainability

Choose any website

Occupational therapy Movie Reflective Essay on Cocoon 1985 film

Please watch the film Cocoon (1985) and write a reflective essay on it. I will attach a copy of the instructions, powerpoints, and the rubric as well as a movie link for you to access. Please read and follow the instructions thoroughly. Use the rubric to help you write and check that all the information is covered. Reference our textbook as well as the powerpoints if you end up using it.

Preferred language style Simple US English(Easy vocabulary, simple grammar constructions)

Freedom of speech in the early American republic

Paper Instructions
“The Sedition Act thrust freedom of expression to the center of discussions of American liberty.” Defend this statement. Does the controversy about whether it’s okay to criticize the government in a time of crisis relevant to the times we are living in right now? Be sure to include in your response a discussion of The Alien and Sedition Acts (July 6, 1798) https://services.wwnorton.com/aws/pdf?file=/wwnorton.college.public/history/am-docs/alien-sedition-acts.pdf and the Protest Against the Alien and Sedition Acts” in the Voices of Freedom.
• You do not need to make formal citations for the papers as you will NOT be using outside sources. Only use Foner and the documents. A simple parenthetical citation with the book(s) you used and the page number will be sufficient. Example: (Foner, p. 47) (Source Name) Again,
Outside sources are PROHIBITED.
• Avoid first person (“I”) statements.
• Watch your tenses! If it happened in the past, use the past tense.

Personal Mission Statement Covey Mission Statement Builder

Write your personal mission statement Click to go to the Covey Mission Statement Builder Site. The results you get from the Covey Mission Statement Builder might be very “bullet orientated”. What I want you to do is to embellish the bullets you get from the Covey site and write a narrative about your personal mission statement. This is your “road map” to effectiveness. Make sure you include your roles and values. Submit
your assignment below. When you click on the underlined “Write your personal mission statement” above you will then get the screen for you to
submit your paper.

Explain the Meaning of Education

Description
In class, we will be reading about intelligence, the learning process and education in our lives. An Educational Autobiography is a story of your experiences, both inside and outside of school, that have had an influence on your education, your growth, your career choice and life goals. It is not a list of all the schools you have attended, but an analysis of the experiences you have gone through that shaped the person you are today.
By the time you complete high school, you have already spent over 14,000 hours in classrooms. These hours will often say more about what you believe about education and teaching than what the standard concept of an education really is. It is quite impossible to capture your entire
14,000 + hours in one essay, so think about the experiences or moments that were most critical to your own development as a student.
The Assignment
In a complete academic essay:
Explain what the meaning of education is you and what is the significance of an education in your life?
Before you start writing, consider the following questions to help you formulate ideas:
Think critically and reflect on the following categories:
What was the purpose of your education? Why were you sent to school?
What did your teachers teach you about the world? When? How? Why?
Was your experience in schools “good”? How do you know?
Develop alternatives and reflect on positive and negative learning / teaching experiences.
Reflect on how the events you have written about shaped and will shape your experiences as a learner and professional practitioner.
Critically reflect on how others (adults, peers etc.) shaped and / or influenced you as a learner – teacher.
Reasons you have chosen to go into your chosen profession and what you hope to accomplish.
As you write the first draft consider the following elements:
As you are writing, it is important to think carefully about both the intentional and unintentional learning (e.g. hidden values, messages, rules, beliefs) that impact your beliefs and values regarding school.

You will be writing about your personal experience as well as incorporating information from our readings. You must use at least two of the readings covered in this unit as sources to help you analyze the issues being exposed. Be sure to pull in several examples from the readings to illustrate your point.
The final draft should have all of the parts of an academic essay: an introduction paragraph with a thesis, several focused body paragraphs with clear topic sentences, and a conclusion paragraph. It should be at least three pages long and have a Works Cited page that is not part of the page count for the essay.
This essay must be in MLA format. It should be written in a 12-point font, Times New Roman, and double-spaced, paginated, and one inch margins all around. All final essays must be submitted on Canvas.
Things to Shoot For:
A clear, specific thesis statement in the introduction paragraph that directly answers the questions in the assignment.
Multiple body paragraphs that follow an organizational strategy.
Body paragraphs that each focus on one specific subtopic related to the thesis; that subtopic is clear in each body paragraphs topic sentence.
Body paragraphs that accurately summarize the reading and state and support your opinion from the thesis
A carefully proofread final draft that is generally free of distracting and confusing sentence-level errors and correctly cites the readings you’ve used.
Make sure your compatibility report is not more than 25% in your essay. This means that only 25% of the writing in this assignment can come from an outside source. The other 75% of writing must come from you.

Key to successful ageing

This is a youtube video.
Mastering time: A key to successful ageing: Claire Steves at TEDxKingsCollegeLondon (Links to an external site.)
Mastering time: A key to successful ageing: Claire Steves at TEDxKingsCollegeLondon
Write a two page paper describing the you tube video above

Canada Public Policy Project

Each student will select a paper from recent issues of Canadian Public Policy (see instructions
below) and prepare a summary of the paper following a briefing note style
https://www.publicsectorwriting.com/?page_id=6. The note should summaries the basic ideas,
methodologies and findings of the paper. The note will be written individually, in each student’s
own words. Students should keep in mind that the potential readers of the note are
Directors/Ministers/future clients who has limited analytical background; therefore, it cannot be
written as simply a technical summary. Each note will follow the format distributed during the
first day of class and, unless otherwise indicated by the instructor, it will not exceed 2 pages (or
500 words) in length, double-spaced and in Times New Roman font size 12 with 1″ margins. You can go through the website (will be provided to the assigned writer along with login information). There are examples and please follow it.

 

Conflict Analysis

Part 1: Analysis

Part 2: Reflection