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The police arrive where they find and arrest five burglars in the Democratic National Committee headquarters office within the complex

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074119/synopsis?ref_=tt_stry_pl
Panel Discussion of the Film: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVrGZSxpBEA

On the early morning hours of June 19, 1972, a security guard (Frank Wills, playing himself) at the Watergate complex finds a door kept unlocked with tape. The police
arrive where they find and arrest five burglars in the Democratic National Committee headquarters office within the complex. The next morning, The Washington Post
assigns new reporter Bob Woodward (Robert Redford) to the unimportant story.

Woodward learns that the five men – four Cuban-Americans from Miami and their ringleader James W. McCord, Jr. had bugging equipment and have their own “country club”
attorney. McCord identifies himself in court as having recently left the Central Intelligence Agency, and the others also have CIA ties. The reporter connects the
burglars to E. Howard Hunt, formerly of the CIA, and President Richard Nixon’s Special Counsel Charles Colson.

Carl Bernstein (Dustin Hoffman), another Post reporter, is assigned to cover the Watergate story with Woodward. The two are reluctant partners, but work well together.
Executive editor Ben Bradlee (Jason Robards) believes their work is incomplete, however, and not worthy of the Post’s front page. He encourages them to continue to
gather information.

Woodward contacts “Deep Throat” (Hal Holbrook), a senior government official and anonymous source he has used before in the past. Communicating through copies of the
The New York Times and a balcony flowerpot, they meet in a parking garage in the middle of the night. Deep Throat speaks in riddles and metaphors about the Watergate
break-in, but advises Woodward to “follow the money”.

Over the next few weeks, Woodward and Bernstein connect the five burglars to thousands of dollars in diverted campaign contributions to Nixon’s Committee to Re-elect
the President (CRP, or CREEP). Bradlee and others at the Post dislike the two young reporters’ reliance on unnamed sources like Deep Throat, and wonder why the Nixon
administration would break the law when the President is likely to defeat Democratic nominee George McGovern.

Through former CREEP treasurer Hugh W. Sloan, Jr., Woodward and Bernstein connect a slush fund of hundreds of thousands of dollars to White House Chief of Staff H. R.
Haldeman, “the second most important man in this country,” and former Nixon Attorney General John N. Mitchell, now head of CREEP. They learn that CREEP used the fund
to begin a “rat-fucking” campaign to sabotage Democratic presidential candidates a year before the Watergate burglary, when Nixon was behind Edmund Muskie in the
polls.

Bradlee’s demand for thoroughness forces the reporters to obtain other sources to confirm the Haldeman connection. When the White House issues a non-denial denial of
the Post’s above-the-fold story, the editor thus continues to support them.

Woodward secretly meets with Deep Throat again for more questions where Deep Throat finally reveals that the Watergate break-in was indeed masterminded by Haldeman.
Deep Throat also claims that the cover-up by those in the White House was not to hide the other burglaries or of the burglars involvment with CREEP, but to hide the
“covert operations” involving “the entire U.S. intelligence community”, and warns that Woodward, Bernstein, and others’ lives are in danger. When Woodward and
Bernstein relay this to Bradlee, he urges the reporters to continue despite the risk and Nixon’s re-election.

In the final scene, set on January 20, 1973, Bernstein and Woodward type out the full story, with the TV showing Nixon taking the Oath of Office, for his second term
as President of the United States, in the foreground. A montage of Watergate-related teletype headlines from the following years is shown ending with Nixon’s
resignation and the inauguration of Gerald Ford on August 9, 1974.

A social scientist cross-classi? es

A social scientist cross-classi? es the responses of 100 randomly selected people on the basis of gender and whether or not they favor strong gun control laws to
obtain the following: GENDER AND ATTITUDE TOWARD STRONG GUN CONTROL ATTITUDE TOWARD GUN CONTROL GENDER FAVOR OPPOSE TOTAL Male 40 20 60 Female 30 10 40 Total 70 30 100
(a) Using the .05 level of signi? cance, test the null hypothesis for gender and attitude toward gun control. (b) Specify the approximate p -value for the test result.
(c) How might these results be reported in the literature?

the best point estimate of the population mean

Find the best point estimate of the population mean. Construct a 95% confidence interval for the population mean. Assume that your data is normally distributed and ?
is unknown. Please show your work for the construction of this confidence interval and be sure to use the Equation Editor to format your equations. Write a statement
that correctly interprets the confidence interval in context of your selected topic. Patient # Infectious Disease Age 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19
20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes 69 35 60 55 49 60 72 70 70 73 68 72 74 69 46 48 70 55 49 60 72 70 76 56 59 64 71 69
55 61 70 55 45 69 54 48 60 61 50 59 60 62 63 53 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes 64 50
69 52 68 70 69 59 58 69 65 61 59 71 71 68 Column1 Mean Standard Error Median Mode Standard Deviation Sample Variance Kurtosis Skewness Range Minimum Maximum Sum Count
61.81667 1.152127 61.5 69 8.924337 79.64379 -0.091937 -0.649626 41 35 76 3709 60

Raw material purchasing strategies Explain the roles and uses of inventory Explain techniques for effective inventory management

The warehouse manager asked you to create a presentation for his staff. The presentation will discuss various aspects of inventory control and will include a sample
inventory list as a comprehensive chart that lists all of the company’s internal resources: equipment, machines, technology, furniture, office supplies, and so forth.

Considering the company, its services, and its products and using what you learned in the game module, create a PowerPoint presentation that will address all internal
resources of the organization and address the following:

Explain the “make to order” process
Quality considerations in the production process
Supplier deals and supplier quality, reliability, cost, and lead times
Raw material purchasing strategies
Explain the roles and uses of inventory
Explain techniques for effective inventory management
Explain the elements of lean and “just-in-time” approaches to supply chain management.
Create an inventory based on departments, units, and teams in a table providing elements of relevant categories (e.g., departments, materials, technology, office
equipment, vendors, time line, cost, restocking dates, resource locations) using the inventory list template link below.
Inventory list template: Should be similar to this example. https://templates.office.com/en-us/Make%20a%20List…
Use the following format:

8–10 slides
Eye-catching graphics, clip art, charts, and models
A minimum of 100–200 words of speaker’s notes per slide
APA, 6th edition format for all citations and references

Little Big Corporation

Little Big Corporation hired Stuart as a delivery driver. Before Stuart was hired, the personnel director of Big Little Corporation not only interviewed Stuart and
asked him about his driving record and the status of his driver’s license, but the personnel director also obtained an official driving record for Stuart and talked
with Stuart’s former employer specifically about Stuart’s driving record. There was no indication from the interview with Stuart, from his driving record, or from
Stuart’s previous employer that Stuart was an unsafe driver.

When Stuart was hired by Little Big Corporation, he was thoroughly trained in the operation of the delivery truck that he would be driving and provided an employee
safety manual which he was required to (and did) read.
disscusion

For seven years, Stuart worked as a delivery driver for Little Big Corporation without any accidents or problems. In Stuart’s eighth year as a delivery driver for
Little Big Corporation, while making a delivery, he was distracted by something in the cab of his delivery truck, ran a stop sign and hit the car that was being driven
by Peggy. Peggy suffered a broken leg and her car was badly damaged.

Peggy sued Stuart and Little Big Corporation for her injuries and damage, and she was awarded damages against Stuart and Little Big Corporation. Little Big
Corporation was considered to be fully responsible for these damages under the doctrine of respondeat superior.

Is that fair to Little Big Corporation? What is accomplished by making an employer liable for the actions of their employees if the employer has done everything
within reason to make sure that its employees are qualified and trained to do their jobs safely? 200 word

Case Analysis
Dave is a driver for Empire Courier Service. Around the company, Dave is known as sort of a hothead. During his
previous employment at another company, Dave had been involved in a workplace fistfight with a fellow employee,resulting in criminal charges.
One day, between deliveries and in a company vehicle, Dave decides to get lunch. While leaving the parking lot at Big Burrito Bistro, the favorite lunch spot for most
Empire Courier employees, Dave negligently causes a car accident with
another vehicle, resulting in injuries to Victor, the driver of the other car. As Dave and Victor are waiting on the side of the
road for the police to arrive, Victor comments to Dave, “Oh, you drive for Empire Courier Service. It doesn’t surprise me that Empire hires bad d
rivers because their service stinks,
and their prices are too high!” Dave is so offended that Victor
would insult his employer’s professional reputation that he punches Victor in the face, causing Victor to suffer even more injuries. Empire Courier Service does not,
as a matter of policy, do criminal background checks on its employees.
Considering the legal principles discussed in Chapter 20, explain who is liable for Dave’s negligence for causing the car accident, and
explain who is liable for Dave’s intentional tort for punching Victor. Provide your answers in a case analysis of a minimum of 500 words. Cite any direct quotes or
paraphrased material from outside sources. Use APA format.

Non profit Organization (Youth Football Program)

Non profit Organization (Youth Football Program) article for information would be www.nflfoundation.org
Expressing Your Ideas for a Professional Audience
Select an article relevant to your field of study from one of the following professional websites. You may not use the same article you used in your Unit 2 or Unit 4
Assignment. Read the article and apply what you have learned about appropriate language and writing professional documents to complete the following Assignment:
Write a 1 to 1 and ½-page Executive Summary of the article you have chosen, organized into 3–4 paragraphs. You may write to a business audience either for the company
you currently work for, or imagine that you are working as a consultant for a business or non-profit or charity organization and write to an appropriate audience
within that organization. Summarize the main points of this article and explain how the information contained within the article is relevant to a specific issue or
problem the company is currently facing. Make a recommendation for what your audience should do with this information. You may use information from sources other than
the original article that you use as the basis for your Executive Summary, but if you use sources in your Executive Summary, you must give the sources credit using 6th
edition APA format.
Utilize the following 5-minute video from the KU Writing Center to format the title page of your paper:
APA FORMATTING VIDEO
The actual Executive Summary itself, however, should follow appropriate memorandum formatting, explained in the following link:
https://kucampus.kaplan.edu/MyStudies/AcademicSupportCenter/WritingCenter/WritingReferenceLibrary/WritingTypesAndTools/WritingMemo.aspx
Find out how your instructor will grade your Unit 9 Assignment by reviewing the rubric.
Review a sample student Assignment.
Submitting your Unit 9 Assignment:
Remember that you must use Microsoft Word for this and all projects submitted for this class. When you are ready to submit the Assignment, go to the Unit 9 Assignment
Dropbox and complete the steps below:
Click the link that says Submit an Assignment.
In the Submit to Basket menu, select Unit 9: Assignment Dropbox.
In the Comments field, make sure to add at least the title of your paper.
Click the Add Attachments button.
Follow the steps listed to attach your Microsoft Word document.
To view your graded work, come back to the Dropbox or go to the Gradebook after your instructor has evaluated it.
ID: CM107-09-04-AS

What is this thing called love? What? Is this thing called love? What is this thing called? Love.

First article
Gray, Paul. “What is Love?.” Time, 141.7 (1993): 46.

What is this thing called love? What? Is this thing called love? What is this thing called? Love.
HOWEVER PUNCTUATED, COLE Porter’s simple question begs an answer. Love’s symptoms are familiar enough: a drifting mooniness in thought and behavior, the mad conceit
that the entire universe has rolled itself up into the person of the beloved, a conviction that no one on earth has ever felt so torrentially about a fellow creature
before. Love is ecstasy and torment, freedom and slavery. Poets and songwriters would be in a fine mess without it. Plus, it makes the world go round.
Until recently, scientists wanted no part of it.
The reason for this avoidance, this reluctance to study what is probably life’s most intense emotion, is not difficult to track down. Love is mushy; science is hard.
Anger and fear, feelings that have been considerably researched in the field and the lab, can be quantified through measurements: pulse and breathing rates, muscle
contractions, a whole spider web of involuntary responses. Love does not register as definitively on the instruments; it leaves a blurred fingerprint that could be
mistaken for anything from indigestion to a manic attack. Anger and fear have direct roles — fighting or running — in the survival of the species. Since it is
possible (a cynic would say commonplace) for humans to mate and reproduce without love, all the attendant sighing and swooning and sonnet writing have struck many
pragmatic investigators as beside the evolutionary point.
So biologists and anthropologists assumed that it would be fruitless, even frivolous, to study love’s evolutionary origins, the way it was encoded in our genes or
imprinted in our brains. Serious scientists simply assumed that love — and especially Romantic Love — was really all in the head, put there five or six centuries ago
when civilized societies first found enough spare time to indulge in flowery prose. The task of writing the book of love was ceded to playwrights, poets and pulp
novelists.
But during the past decade, scientists across a broad range of disciplines have had a change of heart about love. The amount of research expended on the tender passion
has never been more intense. Explanations for this rise in interest vary. Some cite the spreading threat of AIDS; with casual sex carrying mortal risks, it seems
important to know more about a force that binds couples faithfully together. Others point to the growing number of women scientists and suggest that they may be more
willing than their male colleagues to take love seriously. Says Elaine Hatfield, the author of Love, Sex, and Intimacy: Their Psychology, Biology, and History: “When
I was back at Stanford in the 1960s, they said studying love and human relationships was a quick way to ruin my career. Why not go where the real work was being done:
on how fast rats could run?” Whatever the reasons, science seems to have come around to a view that nearly everyone else has always taken for granted: romance is
real. It is not merely a conceit; it is bred into our biology.
Getting to this point logically is harder than it sounds. The love-as-cultural-delusion argument has long seemed unassailable. What actually accounts for the emotion,
according to this scenario, is that people long ago made the mistake of taking fanciful literary tropes seriously. Ovid’s Ars Amatoria is often cited as a major source
of misreadings, its instructions followed, its ironies ignored. Other prime suspects include the 12th century troubadours in Provence who more or less invented the Art
of Courtly Love, an elaborate, etiolated ritual for idle noblewomen and aspiring swains that would have been broken to bits by any hint of physical consummation.
Ever since then, the injunction to love and to be loved has hummed nonstop through popular culture; it is a dominant theme in music, films, novels, magazines and
nearly everything shown on TV. Love is a formidable and thoroughly proved commercial engine; people will buy and do almost anything that promises them a chance at the
bliss of romance.
But does all this mean that love is merely a phony emotion that we picked up because our culture celebrates it? Psychologist Lawrence Casler, author of Is Marriage
Necessary?, forcefully thinks so, at least at first: “I don’t believe love is part of human nature, not for a minute. There are social pressures at work.” Then falls
a shadow over this certainty. “Even if it is a part of human nature, like crime or violence, it’s not necessarily desirable.”
Well, love either is or is not intrinsic to our species; having it both ways leads nowhere. And the contention that romance is an entirely acquired trait — overly
imaginative troubadours’ revenge on muddled literalists — has always rested on some teetery premises.
For one thing, there is the chicken/egg dilemma. Which came first, sex or love? If the reproductive imperative was as dominant as Darwinians maintain, sex probably led
the way. But why was love hatched in the process, since it was presumably unnecessary to get things started in the first place? Furthermore, what has sustained romance
— that odd collection of tics and impulses — over the centuries? Most mass hallucinations, such as the 17th century tulip mania in Holland, flame out fairly rapidly
when people realize the absurdity of what they have been doing and, as the common saying goes, come to their senses. When people in love come to their senses, they
tend to orbit with added energy around each other and look more helplessly loopy and self-besotted. If romance were purely a figment, unsupported by any rational or
sensible evidence, then surely most folks would be immune to it by now. Look around. It hasn’t happened. Love is still in the air.
And it may be far more widespread than even romantics imagined. Those who argue that love is a cultural fantasy have tended to do so from a Eurocentric and class-
driven point of view. Romance, they say, arose thanks to amenities peculiar to the West: leisure time, a modicum of creature comforts, a certain level of refinement in
the arts and letters. When these trappings are absent, so is romance. Peasants mated; aristocrats fell in love.
But last year a study conducted by anthropologists William Jankowiak of the University of Nevada-Las Vegas and Edward Fischer of Tulane University found evidence of
romantic love in at least 147 of the 166 cultures they studied. This discovery, if borne out, should pretty well wipe out the idea that love is an invention of the
Western mind rather than a biological fact. Says Jankowiak: “It is, instead, a universal phenomenon, a panhuman characteristic that stretches across cultures.
Societies like ours have the resources to show love through candy and flowers, but that does not mean that the lack of resources in other cultures indicates the
absence of love.”
Some scientists are not startled by this contention. One of them is anthropologist Helen Fisher, a research associate at the American Museum of Natural History and the
author of Anatomy of Love: The Natural History of Monogamy, Adultery and Divorce, a recent book that is making waves among scientists and the general reading public.
Says Fisher: “I’ve never not thought that love was a very primitive, basic human emotion, as basic as fear, anger or joy. It is so evident. I guess anthropologists
have just been busy doing other things.”
Among the things anthropologists — often knobby-kneed gents in safari shorts — tended to do in the past was ask questions about courtship and marriage rituals. This
now seems a classic example, as the old song has it, of looking for love in all the wrong places. In many cultures, love and marriage do not go together. Weddings can
have all the romance of corporate mergers, signed and sealed for family or territorial interests. This does not mean, Jankowiak insists, that love does not exist in
such cultures; it erupts in clandestine forms, “a phenomenon to be dealt with.”
Somewhere about this point, the specter of determinism begins once again to flap and cackle. If science is going to probe and prod and then announce that we are all
scientifically fated to love — and to love preprogrammed types — by our genes and chemicals, then a lot of people would just as soon not know. If there truly is a
biological predisposition to love, as more and more scientists are coming to believe, what follows is a recognition of the amazing diversity in the ways humans have
chosen to express the feeling. The cartoon images of cavemen bopping cavewomen over the head and dragging them home by their hair? Love. Helen of Troy, subjecting her
adopted city to 10 years of ruinous siege? Love. Romeo and Juliet? Ditto. Joe in Accounting making a fool of himself around the water cooler over Susan in Sales? Love.
Like the universe, the more we learn about love, the more preposterous and mysterious it is likely to appear.
PHOTO: UNITED STATES: Valentine’s Day: Romantic rituals in the West have evolved into the bestowal of flowers, candy and other sweet nothings. But the absence of such
gift giving in poorer cultures does not, anthropologists are learning, mean the absence of romance. (SANDI FELLMAN)
PHOTO: Cupid on valentine (1993 THE GIFTED LINE–JOHN GROSSMAN INC.)
PHOTO: MEXICO: Shawls in the Marketplace: In the highlands of Chiapas, weaving skills are treasured, and a colorful, well-made shawl advises potential husbands of its
wearer’s dexterity. (LAUREN GREENFIELD)
PHOTO: CHINA: Courtship on Horseback: On the plains of Xinjiang, mounted Kazakh suitors play Catch the Maiden. He chases her in pursuit of a kiss. If he succeeds, she
goes after him with a riding crop. (JAY DICKMAN)
PHOTO: INDIA: A Bed of Roses: Many hotels offer newlyweds lavishly flowered honeymoon suites. In Bombay a couple on their wedding night relax amid and upon a floral
panoply. (LOUIS PSIHOYOS–MATRIX)
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By PAUL GRAY
Reported by Hannah Bloch and Sally B. Donnelly
Section:
PEOPLE
A DIAMOND MAY LAST FOREVER, but nothing says eternal devotion like 31 lbs. of fish and an ample supply of stiff drink. In a three-minute ceremony held in her parents’
Tokyo home, Japan’s high-powered future Princess MASAKO OWADA slipped into a traditional silk kimono to receive the two sea bream (a male and a female), six bottles of
sake and five bolts of silk that served as a formal marriage pledge from Crown Prince Naruhito. Following the offering, the Prince visited ancient shrines to inform
the gods of his engagement.
PHOTO: Masako Owada (JIJI PRESS)
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By GINIA BELLAFANTE

Second Article
Hull, Gary. “LOVE & SELFISHNESS; the False View of Love as Selfless and Unconditional Destroys Its Sublime Value.” The Jacksonville Free Press, 18.4 (2004): 4.
Every Valentine’s Day a certain philosophic crime is perpetrated. Actually, it is committed year-round, but its destructiveness is magnified on this holiday. The crime
is the propagation of a widely accepted falsehood: the idea that love is selfless.

Love, we are repeatedly taught, consists of self-sacrifice. Love based on self-interest, we are admonished, is cheap and sordid. True love, we are told, is altruistic.
But is it?

Imagine a Valentine’s Day card which takes this premise seriously. Imagine receiving a card with the following message: “I get no pleasure from your existence. I
obtain no personal enjoyment from the way you look, dress, move, act or think. Our relationship profits me not. You satisfy no sexual, emotional or intellectual needs
of mine. You’re a charity case, and I’m with you only out of pity. Love, XXX.”

Needless to say, you would be indignant to learn that you are being “loved,” not for anything positive you offer your lover, but–like any recipient of alms–for what
you lack. Yet that is the perverse view of love entailed in the belief that it is self-sacrificial.

Genuine love is the exact opposite. It is the most selfish experience possible, in the true sense of the term: it benefits your life in a way that involves no
sacrifice of others to yourself or of yourself to others.

To love a person is selfish because it means that you value that particular person, that he or she makes your life better, that he or she is an intense source of
joy–to you. A “disinterested” love is a contradiction in terms. One cannot be neutral to that which one values. The time, effort and money you spend on behalf of
someone you love are not sacrifices, but actions taken because his or her happiness is crucially important to your own. Such actions would constitute sacrifices only
if they were done for a stranger–or for an enemy. Those who argue that love demands self-denial must hold the bizarre belief that it makes no personal difference
whether your loved one is healthy or sick, feels pleasure or pain, is alive or dead.

Love is far too precious to be offered indiscriminately. It is above all in the area of love that egalitarianism ought to be repudiated. Love represents an exalted
exchange–a spiritual exchange–between two people, for the purpose of mutual benefit.

You love someone because he or she is a value–a selfish value to you, as determined by your standards–just as you are a value to him or her.

Valentine’s Day–with its colorful cards, mouth-watering chocolates and silky lingerie–gives material form to this spiritual value. It is a moment for you to pause,
to ignore the trivialities of life–and to celebrate the selfish pleasure of being worthy of someone’s love and of having found someone worthy of yours.

Article copyright The Jacksonville Free Press.

What is the 95% confidence interval for the difference in test scores at the two schools, assuming that test scores came from normal distributions in both schools?

Suppose that simple random samples of college freshman are selected from two universities – 25 students from school A and 20 students from school B. On a standardized
test, the sample from school A has an average score of 990 with a standard deviation of 100. The sample from school B has an average score of 950 with a standard
deviation of 90. What is the 95% confidence interval for the difference in test scores at the two schools, assuming that test scores came from normal distributions in
both schools?

a problem from the field of forensic psychology that you would like to have resolved through investigative research methods.

Assignment 1: Formulating a Research Question
Research investigators often encounter the following saying: “A problem that goes unnoticed or ignored is a problem without a resolution.”
Discuss a problem from the field of forensic psychology that you would like to have resolved through investigative research methods.
Use the following questions as guidelines for formulating the actual quantitative research question with respect to the problem that you identify:
What is the specific problem?
What is the evidence of the problem?
What do you suspect is causing the problem?
Is the research question clearly expressed without being too general or too narrow?
Does the question relate to the identified problem?
Is the research, based on the research question, feasible?
Will the research, based on the research question, add to the body of knowledge in the forensic psychology field?
After you submit your research question, read the responses of your classmates and critique the research question of at least two of them. To ensure each of your
classmates receives feedback, please first respond to those who have not received any from your peers. Use these same questions as critique criteria in your response
to other classmates:
Is the question clearly expressed without being too general or too narrow?
Does the question relate to the identified problem?
Are there any barriers to the research?
Will the research, based on the research question, add to the content body of knowledge?
Were these questions fully addressed?
What is the specific problem you are encountering?
What evidence do you have that there is a problem?
What do you suspect is causing the problem?
Post your response in a minimum of 300 words.
All written assignments and responses should follow APA rules for attributing sources.
Submission Details: By Saturday, March 11, 2017
Assignment 2: Course Project Task 1
I will have to send you the feedback from assignment 1 when I get it for this assignment.
Research Question and Hypothesis
After reading the feedback on your proposed quantitative research question in M1 Assignment 2, provide your revised quantitative research question. Next, develop a
hypothesis for the research question (Include a null and an alternative hypothesis for your question.).
Keep in mind that a hypothesis is a specific statement of prediction. A hypothesis describes in concrete (rather than theoretical) terms what you expect will happen in
your study. It should be testable and often mirrors the research question in the way that it is written.
For example, there is a positive correlation between having an alcoholic parent and alcoholism in adulthood.
Once you have clearly stated your research question and hypothesis, discuss the following (in 1–2 pages):
Why is a null hypothesis required in research? How is the null hypothesis used when drawing conclusions from the collected data?
What is the relationship of your hypothesis to the identified problem?
How is your hypothesis feasible?
How is your hypothesis measurable and testable?
Submission Details: By Monday, March 13, 2017
Assignment 3: Review of the Literature
In Module 1, you learned about the literature review process, which you will employ as part of your final research proposal in M5 Assignment 2 RA 2. In preparation for
writing this literature review, in M3 Assignment 2 RA 1, you will submit an annotated bibliography of 6 peer-reviewed articles from the Argosy University online
library resources and locate articles related to the topic of your research in the following categories:
2 quantitative studies
2 qualitative studies
1 mixed-methods study
1 theoretical or research design of your choice
As you work toward your discussion in this module, start searching the library databases for articles that may be a good fit for your M3 Assignment 2 RA 1 and M5
Assignment 2 RA 2.
Then, in this module’s discussion, consider the following:
A strong literature review not only plays a foundational role for setting up a research proposal and/or dissertation but also plays an important role in the results
and discussion section that is presented after the data has been collected and analyzed.
Why is the literature review a needed piece of a research proposal? How can a weak literature review diminish a research proposal?
Once the data has been collected and you are moving into the completion of the research report, how will you continue to pull from your literature review in the
results and discussion section of your report?
What search strategies did you use to locate articles from the Argosy University online library resources for your upcoming RAs?
Review the points of others and add additional examples, challenging a response or drawing conclusions from the response.
Post your response in a minimum of 300 words.
All written assignments and responses should follow APA rules for attributing sources.
Submission Details: By Wednesday, March 15, 2017
Assignment 4: Evaluating Quantitative Design
A researcher must be knowledgeable of the different quantitative research designs and be able to effectively apply the best design as dictated by the research
question. For this assignment, you will create a 3- to 4-page document following the directions below.
Part I
Compare Methods
Compare and contrast two research methods. Give an example of a situation (related to forensic counseling) in which each of the two chosen methods can be applied.
Experimental
Quasi-experimental
Correlational
Survey
Developmental
Part II
Answer Questions
In reference to one of the two example research scenarios that you discussed above in Part I, further explore by answering the following questions (apply these
questions to your own research project):
Determine a suitable research goal.
Discuss what type of sampling could be used for this study.
Identify which types of research designs above (from Part I) would be most appropriate to use.
State your hypothesis of the expected results for this proposed study.
Your final product will be in a Microsoft Word document and be approximately 3–4 pages in length and utilize 2–3 scholarly sources in your research. Your paper should
be written in a clear, concise, and organized manner; demonstrate ethical scholarship in accurate representation and attribution of sources; and display accurate
spelling, grammar, and punctuation.
Submission Details: By Saturday, March 18, 2017
Assignment 5: Quantitative vs. Qualitative Research
The qualitative approach to research involves the collection of extensive amounts of narrative and written data in order to gain insight into an event, occurrence,
strategy, or phenomenon. Quantitative research involves the collection of numerical measurement data in order to explain, predict, or control the interest area of
research.
Under what conditions would a person choose the qualitative approach over the quantitative or vice versa when investigating a forensic behavioral science situation?
When would a mixed-methods design be the best option? Through your research provide examples and support for the points you are making.
Review the points of others and add additional examples, challenging a response or drawing conclusions from the response.
Post your responses in a minimum of 300 words.
All written assignments and responses should follow APA rules for attributing sources.
Submission Details: By Tuesday, March 21, 2017
Assignment 6: RA: Annotated Bibliography
The foundation of a research study comes from an understanding of the theory and from knowledge that is set forth by the literature in the field. Before a researcher
can develop a sound and needed research design, he or she must first determine what is already known, how the topic has previously been studied, and where there are
gaps in the knowledge and/or techniques that have been used to study the research problem.
In this module, you will further explore the research topic that you chose in M1 Assignment 2. Additionally, this will be the time to make any needed changes to your
research question before you submit your proposal in M5 Assignment 2 RA 2. For this assignment, you will create a 3- to 4-page document following the directions given
below.
Using the Argosy University online library resources and the Internet, locate 6 peer-reviewed articles that could be used for the literature review portion of the
research proposal in M5 Assignment 2 RA 2. The articles should fall into the following categories:
2 quantitative studies
2 qualitative studies
1 mixed-methods study
1 theoretical or research design of your choice
For each article, cover the following points in 250–350 words:
The problem to be studied
The rationale for the study
The type of research that was conducted (qualitative, quantitative, or mixed-methods)
The data collection strategy
The data analysis tools that were used
A summary of the findings
A statement of how this article will support your proposed study
Present your work in a 3- to 5-page Microsoft Word document that follows the following format:
Reference the source in APA format.
Follow the reference with a single block paragraph of 250–350 words comprising your annotation (summary, evaluation, and reflection).
The whole block should be double-spaced and indented.
Repeat for the next article—don’t forget that your articles should be listed in alphabetical order just as you would on a standard APA reference page.
All written assignments and responses should follow APA rules for attributing sources.
Submission Details: By Friday, March 24, 2017
Assignment 7: Descriptive Statistical Processes
Can descriptive statistical processes be used in determining relationships, differences, or effects in your research question and testable null hypothesis? Why or why
not? Also, address the value of descriptive statistics for the forensic psychology research problem that you have identified for your course project.
Click here to read an article for additional information on descriptive statistics and pictorial data presentations.
Post your response in a minimum of 300 words.
All written assignments and responses should follow APA rules for attributing sources.
While responding to classmates, offer suggestions, ideas, and evaluative comments.
Submission Details: By Monday March 27, 2017
Assignment 8: Methodology
In your final paper for this course, you will need to write a Methods section that is about 3–4 pages long where you will assess and evaluate the methods and analysis
of your proposed research.
In preparation for this particular section, answer the following questions thoroughly and provide justification/support. The more complete and detailed your answers
for these questions, the better prepared you are to successfully write your final paper:
What is the problem being addressed by your research study?
State the refined research question and hypothesis (null and alternative).
What are your independent and dependent variables? What are their operational definitions?
Who will be included in your sample (i.e., inclusion and exclusion characteristics)?
How many participants will you have in your sample?
How will you recruit your sample?
Identify the type of measurement instrument to be used to collect the raw numeric data to be statistically analyzed and the type of measurement data the instrument
produces.
What issues will you cover in the informed consent?
If there is potential risk or harm, how will you ensure the safety of all participants?
Name any possible threats to validity and steps that can be taken to minimize these threats.
What type of parametric or nonparametric inferential statistical process (correlation, difference, or effect) will you use in your proposed research? Why is this
statistical test the best fit?
State an acceptable behavioral research alpha level you would use to fail to accept or fail to reject the stated null hypothesis and explain your choice.
This paper may be written in question-and-answer format rather than a flowing paper. Write your response in a 3- to 4-page Microsoft Word document.
All written assignments and responses should follow APA rules for attributing sources.
Submission Details: By Thursday March 30, 2017
Assignment 9: A Methodical Review
Using the Argosy University online library resources, locate a research study related to forensic psychology. Present an analysis of the article by addressing the
following points:
Provide a brief overview of the problem being studied, the research design, and the participants being used for the study and the general findings of the study.
Identify the research question, independent variable, and dependent variable.
If you were the researcher conducting this study and found that you were not familiar with the particular research population, what steps would you take to prepare
yourself to conduct the research with this population?
Was any deception used in this study? If so, why was this deception necessary? If not, do you think that the study would have benefited from any kind of deception?
What steps did the researcher take to protect his or her participants?
What are the limitations of the study’s design and/or implementation?
If you were the researcher, would you have conducted this study the same way in relation to ethics and protection of the participants? If not, what changes would you
make?
Post your response in a minimum of 300 words.
All written assignments and responses should follow APA rules for attributing sources.
While responding to classmates, offer suggestions, ideas, and evaluative comments.
Submission Details: By Monday, April 3, 2017
Assignment 10: LASA: Research Proposal
Submit your final research paper to the M5 Assignment 2 LASA Dropbox by Wednesday, April 12, 2017. It should include a cover page, an abstract, an introduction, a
literature review, a methodology, and a reference page.
Your final paper should be double-spaced, 8–10 pages in length, and properly edited.
Please use the following outline:
Introduction (2–3 pages)
Introduction (including the statement of the problem)
Purpose of the study
Research question and hypotheses
Theoretical framework
Operational definitions
Literature review (3 pages)
Introduction
Review of research topic (as covered by the literature)
Conclusion
Methodology (3–4 pages)
Introduction
Research design
Participants
Instruments
Procedures
Data analysis
Limitations of the study (i.e., threats to validity)
Ethical issues
Dissemination strategy
Summary
Reference page
All written assignments and responses should follow APA rules for attributing sources.
Submission Details: By Friday, April 7, 2017

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