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Legalization of Cannabis in The USA

Legalization of Cannabis in The USA
The Course I am enrolled in is called International Bussiness law and its Goal is to introduce the basic principles of law, legal systems and some comparative law in
order to prepare the students to meet the demands of a global management career.

THE PROJECT: research the laws and regulations implemented in the United States in 2016 after the election in regards to Legalisation of Canniabis by state. What are
the laws on Cannabis in each state currently? what is the goverment doing or how is it reacting? is the country legally putting itself at risk? any consequences? what
is the country facing now that these rules have been implemented? whats happening basically in the US in terms of legalization of cannabis? ALL THE TEACHER WANTS TO
KNOW IS WHAT IS HAPPENING IN THE US NOW THAT CANNABIS HAS BEEN LEGALIZED BUT OFCOURSE IT HAS TO BE LINKED TO LAW. SO IS THE COUNTRY BREACHING ANY TREATIES?….

FOLLOW THESE GUIDLINES:

1. Explain and analyse International Business Law concepts.

2. Discuss up-to-date legal theories and examples related to the topic(s).

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System Strategies, SDLC , and project management

1. Topics: System Strategies, SDLC , and project management, keeping in mind the topics presented in this week’s module and your Research Project. Evaluate, synthesize
and summarize the data obtained from your research on your selected current event. The information that you utilize to construct your summary data must relate to
events that are newsworthy and currently in the media. 2. Have you had to work under similar circumstances where you were in a position and had to settle with
utilizing technology resources that did not meet the necessary standards for you to perform your assigned tasks efficiently or that jeopardized business processes or
operations?

Mental disorders

Mental disorders
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), mental health is not just the absence of a mental disorder. WHO defines mental health as “a state of well-being in
which every individual realizes his or her own potential, can cope with the normal stresses of life,

can work productively and fruitfully, and is able to make a contribution to her or his community.”

Discuss what mental health means to you and to your community.

What are some challenges we face as a community in addressing mental health issues?

1) You must use scholarly sources to support your excellent thoughts

2) You must provide in text citations, you can’t just toss a reference in at the end.

3) References and in text citations must be in APA format.

Describe techniques used in decision-making.

Assignment Instructions Learning Objectives Describe techniques used in decision-making.Assignment Instructions Learning Objectives Describe techniques used in decision-making. Examine decision-making models. Apply decision-making techniques. Prompt What
criteria do you recommended to determine the credibility of a source of information? Instructions Develop a list of no less than 10 elements you would use to determine
the credibility of facts, articles, websites, news, etc. Thoroughly explain each element and why it is important Your response can take the form of a table in Word or
PowerPoint presentation. Include at least 3 credible references to support your recommendations
Examine decision-making models. Apply decision-making techniques. Prompt What
criteria do you recommended to determine the credibility of a source of information? Instructions Develop a list of no less than 10 elements you would use to determine
the credibility of facts, articles, websites, news, etc. Thoroughly explain each element and why it is important Your response can take the form of a table in Word or
PowerPoint presentation. Include at least 3 credible references to support your recommendations

String Method Manipulation

String Method Manipulation

ASSIGNMENT:

In this lab, we’re going to explore more about string manipulation, using string methods, slicing and editing web pages. You can remind yourself about string methods
here: https://docs.python.org/release/2.5.2/lib/string-methods.html

(1) Download the file footy.txt. Use set media path. Write a function that will read the contents of the file as a string, and prints out the number of times the word
football occurs. Be careful – what kind of things do you have to account for, and are there string methods that can help you?

First, here’s a function to open a file, that will return the contents of that file as a string

def getData(file):

myFile = open(getMediaPath(file), ‘r’)

text = myFile.read()

myFile.close()

return text

This function opens the file for reading (that’s what that ‘r’ means). It then reads in all the text as one big string. Use this function in another function that
counts the number of times the word football appears. THINK about this. Are there methods that can help you?

(2) Download the file parasites.txt. This is a file containing a list of nucleotides associated with common parasites. Look at the file in a text editor, and see what
it’s structure is! You should find that there is a line, starting with a character, then the NAME of a particular parasite (such as Schisto unique AA825099). Then a
new line, where the structure of the parasite starts.

Let’s imagine we want to find the NAME of a parasite containing a particular nucleotide subsequence (such as ‘ttgtgta’).

HINT: READ ALL THE SUBPROBLEMS BELOW BEFORE STARTING.

(a) Write a python function, called findSequence, that takes a single argument (a small subsequence, such as ‘ttgtgta’), and which finds subsequences of nucleotides in
files like this. This program will open the parasites.txt file, read the file as a single string, and search that string for the first instance of the subsequence
parameter.

PRINT OUT the index of where you find the subsequence. If the sequence is NOT found, print “SUBSEQUENCE not found”

HINT: Remember what the find method returns if something is not found? If it IS found it returns the INDEX where the sequence starts.

(b) Print out the NAME of the parasite in which you find the subseq. The name occurs at the beginning of each sequence, following a ‘>’ symbol, and ending with a
newline character ‘n’. You can’t SEE the ‘n’, but it’s there at the end of every line in this file.

These n characters act as if you had pressed the return key. That means that whenever there is a new line, there is a hidden n. We can use this information to help
us find the name of the parasite (because we can ‘look’ for them). So, HOW are you going to find the name of the parasite that contains a particular subsequence?

HINT: WORK out how you will solve this on a piece of paper. If you KNOW where a subsequence is, HOW do you find the name associated with that subsequence. You can use
string methods to achieve this. IF you do not work this out on paper first, I will be tempted not to help you.

HINT: Normally the method you use to find something in a string finds the FIRST occurrence of the letter, or sequence, in a string. Try:

‘foxfox’.find(‘x’) to remind yourself.

There is another method, that finds the LAST occurrence of a letter or subsequence in a string. It’s called rfind. Try

‘foxfox’.rfind(‘x’)

to see how it works.

HINT: rfind also takes optional parameters. HOW can these help you find what you want? Again, make sure you figure out on paper, remembering that you can ‘find’
different points (index values) in your string. How can you use these index values to help you? For example, maybe FIRST you find something, then using that index, you
can search from there to find something else.

HINT: You can extract the name of the parasite using slicing. What does slicing NEED to work? How can you figure out these things ‘automatically’?

HINT: Remember what the find string method returns if something is not found? If it IS found it returns the INDEX where the sequence starts. How could that help you?

HINT: Once you’ve found a sequence, HOW DO YOU KNOW what the name of the parasite containing that sequence is. Look at the file, and figure out how YOU know this. Then
figure out what the computer would have to do to figure it out. Imagine that the file contains THOUSANDS of parasites, so do not hard code any of your answers based
around the fact that there are only 3 parasites in this example.

HINT: Remember, you can use index positions as optional parameters to the find methods. For example, where to start the search, and where to stop. How can you use the
position of the subseq you’ve found. Look at your notes to remind yourselves of the string methods.

HINT: You can extract the name of the parasite using slicing. In order to slice something from a string, what do you need to know?

(3) The Atlanta Journal-Constitution newspaper has a weather page at: http://www.ajc.com/weather/30301/

You’ll find a copy of this page in your media folder (called ajc-weather.html). Note it’s name. Open this file in TextEdit (right click on the file name, and select
Open With…) AND in a web browser and find where it has the temperature (you might want to search for the phrase “Today in Atlanta”.

Create a program to:

– READ in this file as one string

We are going to want to slice the temperature out of the document. So we need to be able to find index values.

– SEARCH the string for the temperature. THINK: What is a reliable indicator of where the temperature will be? it’s NOT the temperature itself, which obviously can
change. Is there something which always follows a temperature? Some special symbol? HOW is that represented in the HTML text?

– If you find the thing AFTER the temperature, how can you use that index position to locate something BEFORE the temperature. Again, write this out on paper.

– Slice out the temperature and print it to the screen.

Make sure you explore the HTML to try to find good clues for where the current weather information is held.

(4) Python is really cool, because it includes libraries that you can use to do some stuff for you. There is a library you can use to help you access LIVE web pages.
That library is called urllib.

To use it, at the top of your python code (right at the top of the .py file), you write:

import urllib

urllib includes methods that mean you can grab stuff from real web pages. One method is called urlopen. It acts JUST like the open function for normal text – opening
the webpage so you can read the text.

So to open a webpage from the internet (rather than downloading the file), read the contents, and then close that page, we do:

connection = urllib.urlopen(“http://www.ajc.com/weather/30301/”)

weatherData = connection.read()

connection.close()

Then the variable weatherData contains the same string information as if you had read the information from a file.

(a) Create a new program which uses this method to read the current temperature from the LIVE Atlanta Journal-Constitution website. It’s a little different because the
format of the web page has changed. Ask me how to view the source code of the actual website, but NOW you should search for the phrase ‘Feels like’.

Your code might take a little while to run, because it has to go to the website, and download the file, and then work on it.

EXTRA DETAILS:

Please don’t use functions that are too complex. This is just an entry – level comp sci course. I know that this is a very hard assignment ( which is why I am asking
you to do it) but I would like it completed by 10 am tomorrow, if that is possible. I have two finals tomorrow and this is too much for me right now. I am taking
this course for a math credit and I am definitely not majoring in computer science. Thanks so much for your time.

What is your style of developing others?

What is your style of developing others? Are you a shaman, a priest, an elected leader, a missionary, or a mystic healer in your approach to teaching? How did you
develop your style?

Maroon 5, a calendar-year corporation, recently sold tickets ($40,000,000) for concerts scheduled in the United States for next year and the following year. For financial statement purposes, Maroon 5 will recognize the income from the ticket sales when it performs the concerts. For tax purposes, it uses the accrual method and would prefer to defer the income from the ticket sales until after the concerts are performed. This is the first time that it has sold tickets one or two years in advance. Michael Stipe has asked your advice. REQUIRED: Write a memo to Michael explaining your findings and listing a minimum of 3 primary sources. The memo should be in correct format and addressed to the instructor of the course.

Accounting Homework
Maroon 5, a calendar-year corporation, recently sold tickets ($40,000,000) for concerts scheduled in the United States for next year and the following year. For financial statement purposes, Maroon 5 will recognize the income from the ticket sales when it performs the concerts. For tax purposes, it uses the accrual method and would prefer to defer the income from the ticket sales until after the concerts are performed. This is the first time that it has sold tickets one or two years in advance. Michael Stipe has asked your advice.

REQUIRED: Write a memo to Michael explaining your findings and listing a minimum of 3 primary sources. The memo should be in correct format and addressed to the instructor of the course.

SOCW-6510-WK-Assignment Assignment 2: Process Recordings

SOCW-6510-WK-Assignment
Assignment 2: Process Recordings

A process recording is a written tool used by field education experience students, field instructors, and faculty to examine the dynamics of social work interactions in time. Process recordings can help in developing and refining interviewing and intervention skills. By conceptualizing and organizing ongoing activities with social work clients, you are able to clarify the purpose of interviews and interventions, identify personal and professional strengths and weaknesses, and improve self-awareness. The process recording is also a useful tool in exploring the interpersonal dynamics and values operating between you and the client system through an analysis of filtering the process used in recording a session.

For this Assignment, you will submit a process recording of your field education experiences specific to this week.

The Assignment: (2–4 pages)

o Provide a transcript of what happened during your field education experience (military mental health clinic), including a dialogue of interaction with a client.

o Explain your interpretation of what occurred in the dialogue, including social work practice or theories, and explain how it might relate to engagement covered this week.

o Describe your reactions and/or any issues related to your interaction with a client during your field education experience.

o Explain how you applied social work practice skills when performing the activities during your process recording.

References (use 2 or more)
Garthwait, C. L. (2017). The social work practicum: A guide and workbook for students (7th ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson.

Gerdes, K. E., & Segal, E. (2011). Importance of empathy for social work practice: Integrating new science. Social Work, 56(2), 141–148.

video ” the smartest machine on earth:can a computer win on jeopardy?”

Activity 1
Essay 4 pages.
part 1-
watch a video ” the smartest machine on earth:can a computer win on jeopardy?” then select three examples or terms from the video that corresponds to something from this book ” cognition by Margert W. Matline 8th edition”.. Explain and define each concept/ example thoroughly in a paragraph each.

Part 2-
Explain two cognitive concepts from the video that are not in the textbook. explain fully and describe an example.

part 3-
use 5 refrences for each concept ” journal articles” only. List one APA style refrence

Accounting Individual Assignment

Accounting Individual Assignment

The following is a hypothetical case study where you are given an ethical problem and asked to work through the issues presented by the case study. In order to help you address the assignment requirements, please refer to ‘The Resources list to assist you’ on page 4 below.

The case study:

Garry is a financial controller at Just for you Pty Ltd (JFY). This company imports and distributes beauty products for both men and women and its employs around 100 staff, including Sue and Jane. Sue is the marketing manager of JFY; whilst Jane is the CEO as well as the sole owner of JFY.

JFY imports its products from China and distributes them all across Australia. Since its creation in 2000, JFY has had a history of profitability and growth. However, over the last two years, JFY has been facing fierce competition from other similar organisations and has been losing its market share. Also, JFY has been struggling to make positive returns for the last year and has just been able to cover its fixed costs for the last six months. Unless JFY makes a positive return in the next six months, it may have to go into liquidation.

Given the declining financial performance of JFY, Jane has been putting a lot of pressure on Garry and Sue to come up with innovative ideas that will give the company a competitive advantage in the market place and that will also generate an increase in profit margins.

One day, Sue and Garry have a phone meeting with Yong Lee. Yong is the owner as well as marketing representative of Xinni Ltd, an organisation which has been supplying beauty products to JFY for the past ten years. Yong has been a good friend of both Sue and Garry, for the some years now. Yong has suggested that Sue and Garry make a trip to Xinni Ltd in China, to discuss future business opportunities between Xinni Ltd and JFY.

Yong also mentioned it might be a good idea if Sue and Garry bring their family on the trip. Yong reassured Sue and Garry that Xinni Ltd will incur all the expenses associated with the trip. Yong added that the trip will give Yong’s family the opportunity to meet as well as get to know both Sue’s and Garry’s families.

During the phone meeting, Yong advised Sue and Garry that Jane need not know about the business meeting, as Xinni’s sponsorship of the Sue’s and Gary’s family trip to China is unrelated to JFY and is not part of the business trip.

Required:

Answer the following questions, i.e. (a) to (f) inclusive, based on the Case Study presented above on page 1 and assume that you are Garry, the financial controller of JFY.

(a) Identify the facts which are relevant to you, from the case study.
(b) List four key stakeholders who are affected in the case study.
(c) The APES code 110 sets out ethical standards which are applicable to Professional Accountants (including Financial Controllers). Discuss, with reference to the case study, the ethical principles which apply and/or which do not apply to Garry.
Set your answer out to part (c) as follows:

Ethical principle
Discussion (how the principle applies or does not apply to the case)
Integrity

Objectivity

Confidentiality

Professional Behaviour

(d) As Garry, which course of action would you take and why:
(i) Tell Jane everything (including the family trip) or
(ii) Only mention the business trip
(e) What would be the advantages and disadvantages to Just for you Pty Ltd of having a code of conduct?
(f) List three principles you would include in a ‘Code of Conduct’ for Just for you Pty Ltd and give a brief description of each.
Note: To assist you in determining this, you may like to examine the ‘Code of Conduct’ of the company assigned to the group you were in during Weeks 1 to 4 of session, a government agency, and/or a university
2 Reference List:

Includes any references you have used and cited in your report. You must use the Harvard referencing system as per the guide available from the University library website. (Note: the reference list is not included in the word count).

Resources list to assist you

1. The ‘Individual Assignment Marking Guide’ on pages 8 and 9 below. It is imperative you follow this marking guide in order to optimise the marks you may receive for this assignment. The marking guide shows what the marker will be looking for and what mark you will get if you reach certain levels of attainment. Print off a copy and use this to help you in your preparation.
2. Chapter 2 Business Sustainability of the textbook. Birt, J 2014, Accounting: business reporting for decision making, 5th ed, John Wiley and Sons Australia, Milton, Qld, pp. 40‑75.
3. APES 110 Code of Ethics for Professional Accountants, Accounting Professional & Ethical Standards Board Limited (“APESB”), issued December, 2010
4. Websites of the professional accounting bodies, such as, CPA Australia, and The ICAA Australia.

This will ensure you use the correct referencing approach.

7. The following ethical decision making models may help you in answering what is Required above.
· Langenderfer, HQ & Rockness, J 1990, Ethics in the accounting curriculum: cases and readings, American Accounting Association, Sarasota, as cited in S Henderson & G Pierson, chapter 31, Issues in financial accounting, Prentice Hall, Frenchs Forest. NSW.

· St James Ethics Centre 2012, St. James Ethics Centre, http://www.ethics.org.au/

· The Spiral Model ‑ Thompson, IE, Melia, KM, Boyd, KM & Horsburgh, D 2006, ‘Ethical decision‑making and moral theory’, in Nursing ethics, Churchill Livingstone, Edinburgh, pp. 295‑359.

· The Laura Nash model ‑ Nash, LL 1981, ‘Ethics without the sermon’, Harvard Business Review, vol. 59, no. 6, pp. 78‑90.

· The Mary Guy Model – Guy, ME 1990, ‘The Mary Guy Model ‘, in Ethical decision making in everyday work situations, Quorum Books, New York, pp. 14‑9.

A submission of no less than 500 words and no more than 750 words is expected excluding the reference list. Submissions must be word processed in either Times New Roman or Arial font, 12 point and 1.5 spaced with a footer on each page including your name, student ID and page number.

 

What sort of language does this assignment require?

Specialised terms, or “jargon”, should be defined but everyday terms should not. Do not assume that your reader is an expert in the area being discussed, nor assume that they are entirely uneducated.

How many references do we need?

The reference list should contain only those resources that have actually been referred to (or “cited”) in your answer. The quantity of references is not as important as the quality of your references, the relevance of your references and how the references are used in your assignment.

‘I A’ MARKING GUIDE

CRITERIA
UNSATISFACTORY
MEETS
EXPECTATIONS
EXCEEDS EXPECTATIONS
Addresses the specific questions under Requirement 1:

Identify the relevant facts from the case study
Identifies only 2 or less relevant facts from the case study

Identifies 3 or 4 of the relevant facts from the case study

States three valid reasons why it would help

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List four key stakeholders affected by the case study

No relevant key stakeholder listed,

Lists 2 or 3 relevant key stakeholders

List 4 key stakeholders

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Garry has identified the ethical principle INTEGRITY. Discuss why he should consider this with reference to the APES 110 Code of Ethics for Professional Accountants, and any miscellaneous prof statements.

No / little relevant discussion

Mostly relevant discussion

A comprehensive and relevant discussion

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Garry has identified the ethical principle OBJECTIVITY. Discuss why he should consider this with reference to the APES 110 Code of Ethics for Professional Accountants, and any miscellaneous prof statements.

No / little relevant discussion

Mostly relevant discussion

A comprehensive and relevant discussion

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Garry has identified the ethical principle CONFIDENTIALITY. Discuss why he should consider this with reference to the APES 110 Code of Ethics for Professional Accountants, and any miscellaneous prof statements.

No / little relevant discussion

Mostly relevant discussion

A comprehensive and relevant discussion

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Garry has identified the ethical principle PROFESSIONAL BEHAVIOUR. Discuss why he should consider this with reference to the APES 110 Code of Ethics for Professional Accountants, and any miscellaneous prof statements.

No / little relevant discussion

Mostly relevant discussion

A comprehensive and relevant discussion

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Which course of action Garry should take and why?
Identifies the wrong course of action

Identifies the right course of action only.

Identifies the right course of action and also, justifies why the chosen answer.
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Advantages and disadvantages of a Code of Conduct for JFY:

States the advantages and disadvantages

No valid advantage or

valid disadvantage stated

States one valid advantage and one valid disadvantage

States two valid advantages and one valid disadvantage OR vice versa

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A Code of Conduct for JFY:

Outlines the principles for each code that makes up the Codes of Conduct
States one valid key principle

States two valid key principles and gives a valid brief outline of each

States three valid key principles and gives a valid brief outline of each

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Addresses the clarity of the student’s attempt at Requirements 1 and 2:

CRITERIA

UNSATISFACTORY
MEETS EXPECTATIONS
EXCEEDS EXPECTATIONS
Referencing and paraphrasing using the “Harvard system”. Refer to the University’s Library website for details.

In‑text citation and/or paraphrasing and/or reference list missing or substantially incomplete

Satisfactory in‑text citation, paraphrasing and reference list, possibly with a few minor errors

Excellent in‑text citation, paraphrasing and reference list

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Uses clear prose style: sentence structure, grammar, and spelling

Writing style is difficult to follow and/or contains many grammatical and/or spelling errors

Writing style is coherent, with possibly a few grammatical and/or spelling errors

Writing is clear and error‑free

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Not appropriate length/not within the word limit

Outside the word limit i.e. more than 750 words OR less than 500 words

Length is within the set word limit i.e. between 500 – 750 words

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r No penalty