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The third activity in which Allison and I completed was practice with writing lowercase letters as part of the language domain. After reviewing the previous week’s take home activity, it was clear that Allison preferred writing with capital letters rather than lowercase which suggested she needed more practice with learning lowercase letters. For this activity, I cut small orange pumpkins and wrote each lowercase letter of the alphabet on the pumpkins and mixed them up in the pile. Allison…

An Index is a term for a set of variables used as a measure for a more abstract concept. Public Administrators will often find it helpful to use several indicators to form a single measure. The GDP (Gross Domestic Product) is classic example of this. It is…

Is Cultural Diversity Proving to be Compatible with Social Unity? In this essay, I will be using multiple case studies of countries, as well as areas in the UK, to explain why I believe the British government should embrace and encourage cultural diversity, as I believe cultural diversity is proving to be compatible with social unity and that the presence of systems encouraging cultural diversity is not the reason for a general lack of social unity, which can be attributed to other reasons,…

Open Source Software Projects: A Balance of Trust and Control According to Jones et al. (2005), trust is the single most important driver for the success of virtual teams. However, as a result of Michael Gallivan’s (2001) case study on open source software projects, he now believes that there is another variable to this movement that can be found in control. He presents the McDonaldization theory by identifying four aspects of modern organizations: efficiency, calculability, predictability and…

The case study method often describes an extensive investigation of one person (or a particular group of people), with the “hope of revealing universal principles” (Myers, D. (2010). Psychology (9th Edition), United States of America: Worth Publishers). They often adopt an idiographic approach, which is defined as “relating to the study or discovery of particular scientific facts and processes” (Oxford Dictionary). These clinical and developmental studies are undertaken over a fixed period of…

Elder Mistreatment Case Study This case study was concerning the health and safety of Mr. Edward McKay in his home. Mr. McKay is an 82 year old gentleman who after suffering two cerebral vascular accidents has been left with left sided hemiplegia and is unable to speak. He is bedridden with bilateral lower extremity contractures, incontinent, dysphasic and dysphagic. Mr. McKay’s physical condition alone would require total care on a 24 hour basis to assist with feeding, changing and turning…

as unfreezing in which you create a motivation to change, changing, by implementing your new strategies and structure in place, and refreezing in which you support and maintain your change (Kreitner & Kinicki, 2013). For example in the case study, Vineet implemented the 3 stages of Lewin change model in how he wanted to see change take place and he exhausted several avenues to come up with new innovative ways to be productive and competitive, allow his employees to add more value,…

a lower residential density will lead to a higher VMT. In the same way, employment density is negatively related to VMT in Seattle, WA and Baltimore, MD study areas. The level of mixed land use is negatively related to VMT in all, but the Virginia case. Average block size is positively related to VMT in all the study areas. Likewise, the distance from the CBD is positively related to VMT, except the Virginia…

When making an ethical decision, all parties must be taken into consideration. Utilizing the mosquito borne virus case study allowed the manager to apply the three ethical theories and validate the best outcome of decision. The justice model takes into account of treating all stakeholders; athletes, coach and team members equally and fairly but each stakeholder could…

and the pupils of the eye were dilated but reacted slowly to light. Cardiopulmonary resuscitation was instituted without success, and Cindy Black was pronounced dead. Departure from professional standards of nursing care: In every nursing malpractice case the defendant nurse's conduct is measured against that of a reasonably prudent nurse under the same or similar circumstances. Departure from the professional standards of nursing care for the first admission to the emergency department included…