Prepare a 6-page paper that addresses the following questions: 

• What are some of the ways that organized crime impacts you and a community or city (of your choice) directly? (20%) 
• What are some of the ways that law enforcement agencies are working to reduce these types of organized crime in the area you chose? Have these efforts been successful? Why or why not? (35%) 
• Compare your findings to the effects of organized crime in China, Japan, Saudi Arabia, England, France, and Germany on their people. What similarities or differences exist? Explain. (40%)

Identify a character from both a fiction (Zitkala-Sa, Alexie’s “Pawn Shop,” Wright, or Ellison) and a nonfiction (Tecumseh, Jacobs, or Douglass) piece that we have read this week. First,show how the character is limited in his or her role in society (excluded from the American Dream), and then explain specifically how that character pushes against boundaries imposed by society.

Criteria:

• 300 words minimum (excluding quotations and citations)
• Include two properly integrated and cited quotations one from each work)to support your claims. You may use either direct or paraphrased quotes.

Describe an action a regulatory agency took against a business in the past 6 months. Post a link to your source. Do you agree or disagree with the action? Explain your reasoning and support it with the materials from this week

• What is the Hi-Tech Act? What is meaningful use?
• Why should health care organizations be concerned about these guidelines?
• From your perspective, what are two (2) of the most important reasons for the shift from traditional paper-based health records to computerized records?
• What are two (2) benefits (pros) of using electronic health/medical records?
• What are two (2) of the drawbacks (cons) of using electronic health/medical records?
• How is health IT driving standardization and improvements in health care safety and quality?

Jane has been employed as a poncho seamstress at Paul’s Poncho Shop for 13 months.  Paul’s Poncho employees approximately 45 employees most of which are full-time.  Jane works approximately 1,240 hours per annum.  Jane suffers from seasonal allergies which causes nasal stuffiness and watery eyes.  During the spring, Jane’s allergies began to cause her some discomfort and she sought treatment from the Minute Clinic at CVS.  The Nursed practitioner at Minute Clinic recommended that Jane take Sudafed, an over the counter allergy medicine.  Jane purchased the medicine which helped with her allergies but caused her to experience drowsiness.  Jane had previously used up all of her sick time and had no vacation time left.  Jane went to HR to apply for leave under the Family Medical Leave Act.  

1. Does Jane qualify for the leave?  Why or Why not?  
2. What are the requirements for leave under FMLA?

Look at Henry David Thoreau’s “Resistance to Civil Government.”  He claims that it is not just our right as Americans, but it is also our duty to defy unjust laws.  This is a very American idea.  Part of the American identity involves intervening in the face of injustice.  Do you agree with this point?  What boundaries should exist to those interventions?  Support your claims using “Resistance to Civil Government” AND one of the other assigned readings from this week.

Criteria:

• 300 words minimum (excluding quotations and citations)
• Include two properly and integrated quotations (one from each work) to support your claims.  You may use either direct or paraphrased quotes.  See the Literary Analysis Tools Modules in Weeks 1 and 2 for information about integrating and citation quotes.

1. Outline the new product process for Pepsi Next. How consistent is their approach to the process described in the class? (10)
2. PepsiCo has been quite persistent with pursing mid-calories beverage products – why do you think this is the case? Do you agree with their decision to introduce Pepsi Next? Why/why not? (5)
3. How is the performance and market acceptance of Pepsi Next likely to impact the overall brand equity of Pepsi? Should PepsiCo have launched this product under a new brand instead? (5)
4. The launch strategy seemed to heavily focus on generating trials. Why was this important? How else could the launch program have been structured? (5)

 The assignment should be submitted on Canvas in a single-spaced word document and should not exceed two pages. Ensure that your name is clearly printed on top. 

The 17th century in Europe was known as the Scientific Revolution, a period of new scientific thought, discovery, and emerging knowledge based upon the natural world. The following century became known as the Enlightenment. Enlightenment writers were prolific, due to the new printing press. They popularized scientific discoveries of the prior century, new technologies, philosophies, political thought and importantly, encouraged change.

• Select one of the Scientific Revolution scientists/writers or Enlightenment thinkers/writers and consider their contributions to society. 
• Reflect on how their thinking created change in society, scientific knowledge, technology, politics, religion, culture or artistic expression.
• Add examples that support your perception of this change.
• How did change created by the Enlightenment spread to the Americas?

Problem Statement

In this assignment, you will pick a particular development challenge to focus on in the country that you selected for your country report. We will work on identifying concrete problems in class, and the problem that you choose should be related to one of the six development challenges that we learn about in class: health, education, environment, agriculture, demography, or mobility.

All sources should be cited using Chicago author-date style. Be sure to include a full citation in a Works Cited section at the end of your paper and in-text citations every time you use the ideas of another author.

Part I: Problem research (40%)

In order to design an intervention that will effectively address the challenge that you selected, you will have to do some research about that problem. 

In addition, find at least four outside sources that talk about how this issue is being addressed in this country. At least one should be an academic source (peer-reviewed journal article or book from academic publishers) and one should be a policy source (high level publication from a think tank, international organization, NGO, government body, etc.).

Write 500-750 words about the challenge that the country is facing. Summarize what you find and how it relates to what we discussed in class. Try to identify a concrete problem in need of a solution that you could try to design for your grant proposal.

• What is your country doing to combat the problem thus far, and what challenges still exist?
• What is the magnitude of the problem? Is it pervasive across the country or a localized problem? What populations are most affected?
• What factors contribute to the problem in the country-context that you are looking at?

Part II: Solutions research (40%)

Once you have identified a problem, the next step is to think about the factors that contribute to that problem, and how the problem has been addressed in other contexts. We will start thinking about this by looking at what interventions have been explored empirically. 

Look through the J-PAL archives of evaluations: https://www.povertyactionlab.org/evaluations (Links to an external site.). Search for interventions that have been tested in other contexts. This means searching by key word – not necessarily by country.

Pick four studies to write about. Write 500-750 words about the programs that were implemented and what strategies they used. What worked? What didn’t? To what extent do you think that the findings from these studies would transfer into the national/regional context where you want to apply an intervention?

Part III: Summary – Problem statement and map of determinants (20%)

Based on your reading above, in this part of the assignment, you should identify the following three things:

1. Identify a challenge that your country is currently facing. Be as specific as possible in identifying the part of the problem that you want to focus on. Be sure to include some information on the magnitude of the problem as well. 
2. What factors contribute to this problem? Think about determinants across different sectors: economic, social, political, biological, etc. and map out at least two causal chains that lead to the problem you plan to focus on.

Due in 72 hours, in total at least 1500 words (Citation doesn’t count), Chicago format. All sources should be cited using Chicago author-date style. Be sure to include a full citation in a Works Cited section at the end of your paper and in-text citations every time you use the ideas of another author.

Details of Chicago format are available at http://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org.du.idm.oclc.org/tools_citationguide/citation-guide-2.html