Spina bifida

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Please review the video on Spina Bifida.  Write a 300-500 word essay on this disorder and answer the questions below within your essay.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJHPfz20NZw&feature=youtu.be

What is the pathology

What causes it?

Are there different types of the pathogy

What are the symptoms

How is it diagnosed?

How is it treated?

School Counseling

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review a minimum of six professional journal articles related to topics addressed
Journal articles must not be older than 2010.
Integrate citations from the articles in every paragraph
if you need help accessing psychinfo let me know

topics- diversity in counseling, importance of following ethics codes and examples, ways counselors can advocate for things like suicide, mental illness, depression, drug abuse, bullying, etc
importance of technology in counseling, importane of being in an organization like APA & ACA

HR Analytics

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Assignment Instructions
Columbus Custom Carpentry is a small but growing Midwest company that manufactures residential interior doors. Its competitive advantage is its ability to produce a custom-styled product at a low price. In the industry, this is known as mass customization. Columbus Custom Carpentry has achieved this by producing custom assembly jigs that reduce the time and therefore the labor cost required to produce their doors.

Columbus Custom Carpentry employees 134 employees and just hired you as their HR director.  You can learn more about the company by reading the included employee handbook. Recently, there has been a claim of unfair pay practices among employees. The President, Mary Thonn, would like to investigate this claim in hopes of maximizing morale and minimizing voluntary turnover.

HR professionals can use both metrics and analytics to address issues such as this. For this assignment, write a proposal to the President of Columbus Custom Carpentry addressing how analytics can help address this complaint. Address the following in your proposal:

Discuss the importance of analytics
What are metrics, analytics, and data?
Compare and contrast metrics, analytics, and data.
Why are analytics important to her organization?
Address the case study
Define the problem.
Make a recommendation for collecting data (what, why, how, etc.).
Provide a rationale with examples on why your recommendation would be effective.
Incorporate mindfulness, dialogue, and collaboration and how they can be used for change in this case study.
Mechanics: This assignment is to be submitted as an academic essay. You are required to reference the readings and articles ( at least 10 appropriate APA references and in-text citations) that provide evidence of effectiveness for your proposed plan. Give your paper a title, a brief introduction, and a conclusion. Adhere to the American Psychological Association (APA) guidelines for citation and references. Limit it to 1000-1500 words (3-5 pages) typed, double-spaced, Times New Roman, 12 point font, 1″ margins.

Information on the American Psychological Association (APA) style guide (Links to an external site.) can be found in the APA style guide located in the CLU library or on the APA Style website. Additional tools are available through the student resources module.

Regressive tax policy in Texas- A critical discussion of the pros and cons

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Writing Assignment Part 1: Analyze Sources

The purpose of this assignment is to aid students in analyzing sources. Students are to evaluate several potential sources that could be used for an essay. You will need to judge the quality of the eight sources given below. In a paragraph or two for each source, the student should describe it and evaluate its quality. The student should not just ascribe a high or low quality to the source, but discuss the reasoning behind those conclusions. Hopefully, after reading and analyzing these sources you will also have a good handle on the topic and some of its major arguments and issues.

The 8 Sources for Govt 2305 & 2306 Fall 2018 Writing Assignment topic of Regressive Taxation in Texas:

https://www.taxpolicycenter.org/taxvox/tax-cuts-are-big-texas-not-low-income-residents

https://www.houstonchronicle.com/opinion/outlook/article/Brown-Texas-has-a-revenue-problem-and-it-s-11091993.php

https://www.theguardian.com/money/us-money-blog/2014/sep/17/states-income-taxes-surprising-inequality-burden

https://forabettertexas.org/images/BT_2013_03_PP_WhoPaysTaxes.pdf

https://www.texaspolicy.com/library/doclib/2006-02-PP-taxincidence-bs.pdf

https://money.cnn.com/2015/01/15/pf/taxes/poor-state-taxes/index.html

https://www.forbes.com/sites/taxanalysts/2015/01/30/regressive-taxes-are-neither-new-nor-good/#2940ffe45f15

Writing Assignment Part 2: Developing a Thesis statement; Outlining an argument; Preparing the Works Cited.

The purpose of this assignment is allow students to practice forming and outlining their argument and understanding the elements of a traditional essay.

Students will produce an outline for an essay, which eventually you will turn into your final essay. As a preparation for writing that essay, the student should focus on formulating their argument. The sources from assignment one are to be used in the outline, and if you desire, additional sources can be used as well. Students must attribute (cite) all of their sources used in the outline. You will use MLA style, which is the system taught in WC English courses. Remember the list of links located in the introductory module of Canvas to help you with your formatting and preparation of your works cited.

You will turn in an outline (including a thesis statement, topic sentences, evidence to support topics, and a concluding statement). Also, you will include a Works Cited (bibliography). We will talk more about this in class as the semester progresses.

Writing Assignment Part 3: Final argument construction – Your Essay

For this assignment, you will write a well-formulated and organized essay. Specific emphasize should be placed on synthesizing information and making well-supported conclusions. Utilizing the information from the Part 1 sources assignment and the outline from part 2, write your essay in which you discuss thoroughly the question being asked. The final essay needs to be 750-1000 words (3 to 4 pages), not counting the Works Cited portion. You may add your Works Cited at the end of your essay, so that you will have only one file document to upload into Canvas. Remember, I cannot read pages, so if you do not have Word, please upload your document as a .pdf file.

There you go! If you put in the time at the beginning and I would recommend you take notes while doing the source evaluation exercise, and then complete assignment 2, your essay will be all but written up, and you will find that the largest part of this process is the quickest, if not the easiest. I want you to also express your own opinions and attitudes but remember your position needs to be backed with facts from the readings.

While I encourage students to discuss amongst themselves these common assignments, I expect everyone to turn in their own, original work. Plagiarism will not be tolerated- whenever you are expressing someone elses ideas, words or positions, you MUST give them the proper credit through a citation reference. Remembering this when you are taking notes will make it easier when you are writing your final paper.