Although we commonly associate prejudice with minority groups in our own country, almost anyone can be a victim of it. Describe a case of prejudice that you are aware of. It could be prejudice toward you or that you harbor toward others, or an example from the media or your own experience. If this involves others, please disguise their identities.

Using what you have learned in this module and other appropriate sources, explain how you think that the prejudice originated. Was there a stereotype involved? Did the prejudice ultimately lead to discrimination? Be sure to describe each of the concepts and explain how it relates to the others. What might you do to turn this situation around and prevent it from happening in the future? After you have posted your case and answered the questions, take a look at this video: Cultural Competence: Managing Your Prejudices (Links to an external site.).

WRITE ONE PARAGRAPH ONLY!

Charts and graphs are used quite often in newspaper articles, magazines, books, and various online articles. There are pros and cons to using these types of visual representations. Describe one pro and one con for using a graph or chart. Share an example of a time when this type of visual changed your mind about something or gave you a deeper understanding of a topic or current event.

 Continuation………..

It’s time to describe the monitoring tools for your two compliance plans in a way that all employees will understand at a large medical facility where you are the Compliance Officer.

Compliance Plans: 

• A compliance plan about washing hands.
• A compliance plan about Employees are not knowledgeable in the use of fire extinguishers.
• Your assignment is to write a 2-3 page section describing the monitoring tools for each compliance plan. (That means a total of 4-6 pages for the two plans; you can write them in one Word document.)
• Then, create a 1-page procedure based on one of your monitoring tools. Monitoring tools you should cover for each plan should relate to the policies and procedures you developed in previous modules.
• You chose policies/procedures under the key compliance areas of Compliance Standards, High-Level Responsibility, Education, Communication, Monitoring/Auditing (for Safety), Enforcement/Discipline, and Response/Prevention. (Check them out if you forget! Remember, you may have written about different policies/procedures for the two different compliance plans.)

 you are required to include research references throughout your compliance plan – for a total of 12 references for the whole project. That means one or two references per each monitoring tools section for your two compliance plans.

Assume that you are in the requirements analysis phase and before the development of the online course management system from the previous assignment. Visualizations of the system need to be constructed using an architecture description language, as well as interpretations of the visualizations.   Write a three-page paper in which you:

1. Construct at least four (4) architectural visualizations of the software system through the use of graphical tools in Microsoft Word or Visio, or an open source alternative such as Dia. Note: Please refer to Chapter 7 of the text for detailed information on architectural visualization. The graphically depicted solution is not included in the required page length.
2. Describe each architectural visualization in relation to the course management system. 
3. Explain the benefits of each architectural visualization to the various stakeholders of the project. 
4. Use at least four (4) quality resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and similar Websites do not qualify as quality resources. You may use the resources above or others of your choosing.

Case study # 2:

For this assignment, following APA style, answer as comprehensively as possible the questions after each case summary.

Please refer to the Best Homes, Inc. Forecasting on page 447 of the text and answer the questions that follow the synopsis below.

 Synopsis and Purpose

The purpose of this case is to expose students to the issues involved in forecasting. best Homes is a home construction company with headquarters in Kansas City, Missouri.  They construct only residential homes throughout the U.S. and only new homes.  Their reputation is based on building quality homes at a competitive price.  Forecasting the correct demand for new home construction is a challenging task. 

read the case study on pages 446-447 of the text and answer the following questions:

Questions:

1. What forecasting methods should the company consider?  Please justify:
2. Use the classical decomposition method to forecast average demand for 2016 by month.  What is your forecast of monthly average demand for 2016?
3. Best Homes is also collecting sales projections from each of its regions for 2016. What role should these additional sales projections play, along with the forecast from question 2, in determining the final national forecast? 

• Added comment by Dr. Schlueter:
  • All forecasting methods include errors, which can only be determined when the actual data become available.  The challenge remains to estimate the error in advance.  Note my lecture in class about how to respond to this challenge.  The decomposition approach is a good beginning, but it has to be expanded to get reasonable results on estimating the error associated with a sales forecast.  I expect that you incorporate my guidance in your thinking and address the technique at least in concept.  If you do not see the possibility to address this task within the five questions specified by the case study text, then create a separate answer for forecast error assessment.

Answers must be well thought-out and in discussion format. Short one-liner answers are not sufficient.

• Answer the five questions at the end of the Case Synopsis and Purpose
• Repeat each question ahead of your answer
• Use headings to separate the response to each question
• Make sure you answer each question
• Follow APA style
• Check grammar, spelling, sentence structure, etc

I strongly suggest you use a good proofreader for each written submission.

Imagine you have been asked by your local church, synagogue, scouting group, sports team or some other community organization, to give a 15-20 minute talk about addiction. Imagine there has been some concern in the community about how to deal with the problem. You’ve been asked to talk about what happens to the brain when people become addicted.

• Powerpoint presentation with notes (10 slides minimum, APA format)
• Your power point presentation must include citations and references in each slide (as appropriate) and a references slide at the end of the presentation.
  • Your presentation should reflect not only your opinion but also your familiarity with the material from the course.
  • Pay attention to your formatting and professionalism of the presentation

Different social behaviors occur within society as well as social inequalities. How do these social behaviors and social inequalities develop? This assignment requires you to examine these concepts in more depth and explain what you have learned.

Write a 350- to 525-word summary of the concepts related to deviance and social inequalities.

Ensure you do the following:

• Describe the concept of deviance.
• Describe how each sociological perspective explains deviance.
• Describe factors that contribute to social inequalities.

Include a minimum of one source.

Please write an analysis report about the recent attack on the US Office of Personnel Management. In the report, please answer the following questions:

1- What type of attack was launched on OPM?
2- What was compromised or breached?
2- How was the attack accomplished if known?
4- Your own analysis and feedback about the attack?

5- Who are the victims?  What are the implications for them?