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the history of the corrections system and varying approaches to corrections by era.

the history of the corrections system and varying approaches to corrections by era.
Corrections

examine the issues related to corrections as well as the best strategies and options designed to meet the goals of corrections. Your paper should include the following:

An explanation of the history of the corrections system and varying approaches to corrections by era.
A complete description of the participants of the corrections system and their roles.
A detailed analysis of the impediments, or issues, faced by corrections administrations when running a prison.
A complete description of the rights of prisoners, and the administration of required services by prison officials.
A detailed description of alternative forms of corrections, including methods of rehabilitation and reintroduction to society.
A comprehensive list of alternative strategies to incarceration with an assessment, both pro and con, showing their worth as related to traditional, incarceration strategies.
You must incorporate at least five resources. Provide statistical data and analyses justifying the positions taken in the paper, and any other scholarly or practical references that lend credibility to the project and the findings presented.
Must be eight to ten double-spaced pages in lengthand formatted according to APA style

Highly Reliable Organization Matrix

Highly Reliable Organization Matrix
Assignment: High Reliability in Health Care – Long-Term Care
These three steps: commitment by leadership, development of a culture of safety, and the use of process improvement tools, are the core recommendations made by Dr. Chassin, the president of The Joint Commission and the president of the Joint Commission Center for Transforming Healthcare. A first step in identifying whether these recommendations are being met is to compare elements of an organization to criteria which have been identified as essential to high-reliability organizations
To prepare for this Assignment:
Consider the three steps described by Dr. Chassin and the seven major criteria of the Baldridge Performance Excellence Program, and reflect on how these recommendations can apply to health care organizations, specifically to long-term care facilities.
The Assignment:
In this Assignment you will identify major elements of high-reliability organizations providing long-term care. According to the Baldrige Performance Excellence Program (MBNQA), the criteria are as follows:
• Leadership
• Strategic planning
• Customer and market focus
• Measurement, analysis, and knowledge management
• Human resource focus
• Process management
• Business/organizational performance results
Using the Highly Reliable Organization Matrix located in this week’s Learning Resources, complete the matrix by typing in the elements which meet the criteria in rows and columns. Describe each element briefly, give an example as to how this can be met in a long-term care facility, and explain the expected impact on patient care.
Based on the results of the Highly Reliable Organization Matrix, write a 1- to 2-page executive summary to the board of directors of the long-term care organization, describing elements which meet the criteria from the matrix and how any missing elements of the criteria for excellence can be met.

Assignment: High Reliability in Health Care – Long-Term Care
These three steps: commitment by leadership, development of a culture of safety, and the use of process improvement tools, are the core recommendations made by Dr. Chassin, the president of The Joint Commission and the president of the Joint Commission Center for Transforming Healthcare. A first step in identifying whether these recommendations are being met is to compare elements of an organization to criteria which have been identified as essential to high-reliability organizations
To prepare for this Assignment:
Consider the three steps described by Dr. Chassin and the seven major criteria of the Baldridge Performance Excellence Program, and reflect on how these recommendations can apply to health care organizations, specifically to long-term care facilities.
The Assignment:
In this Assignment you will identify major elements of high-reliability organizations providing long-term care. According to the Baldrige Performance Excellence Program (MBNQA), the criteria are as follows:
• Leadership
• Strategic planning
• Customer and market focus
• Measurement, analysis, and knowledge management
• Human resource focus
• Process management
• Business/organizational performance results
Using the Highly Reliable Organization Matrix located in this week’s Learning Resources, complete the matrix by typing in the elements which meet the criteria in rows and columns. Describe each element briefly, give an example as to how this can be met in a long-term care facility, and explain the expected impact on patient care.
Based on the results of the Highly Reliable Organization Matrix, write a 1- to 2-page executive summary to the board of directors of the long-term care organization, describing elements which meet the criteria from the matrix and how any missing elements of the criteria for excellence can be met.

Storytelling Using Song Lyric

Storytelling Using Song Lyric
As a consumer of music, we often construct our own stories to accompany our favorite songs. An old song, for instance, can conjure up long forgotten memories from our childhood, take you back to a magical moment that you experienced on your first date, make you shed a tear or laugh out loud.

For this assignment, you will use images to tell one of the stories that comes to mind when you hear a favorite song(s). Use Storify, Tumblr (Links to an external site.), a video (Links to an external site.) (export a PowerPoint or Keynote presentation as a video with the song as background music), or a basic webpage (Links to an external site.) to tell a story that merges the lyrics from one song with a sequence of 10 still images and/or animated gifs. Sources of content may include your photos of friends and family members, your drawings or word art, archival images, memes, tweets, infographics, maps, etc. You may choose to use tools to add filters, quotes, and text that improve the story telling capabilities. You are free to –and encouraged to– be creative and exploratory in your storytelling.

To insert images into Storify, you will need to follow these steps:

Upload the image from your computer to any common image sharing service (e.g. imgur.com (Links to an external site.)) or find an image online
copy/paste the image’s URL into the “Embed URL” tool seen in Storify’s story editor (the panel on the right side of the screen) while creating your story.
the image should then load in the story on the left side of the screen
To insert content from Twitter, Facebook, YouTube or other social media sites, just use the appropriate icon in Storify’s story editor.

The goal is to curate your images and present them with the lyrics in an aesthetically pleasing way. The images should help the reader to elucidate or make sense of the poem you have chosen. The images may comment directly on the line of lyric, or offer a representation of a figure, place, image, or theme within that line, or they may have a more oblique relationship to the line in question. However, you must be able to demonstrate the relevance of each component to our understanding of the lyric.

Submission:
Deliver a story that allows viewers to browse or scroll through the images at their own pace. The story should be visually appealing and tell a coherent story that can be consumed in 2-3 minutes. You do NOT need to cite your personal photos.

Political Science

One type of interest group are those associated with gun-control. This is an issue over which intense lobbying takes place by interest groups, most notably the NRA (National Rifle Association) and Handgun Control, Inc.  Read about gun-control in your text and then check out their websites: NRA.org and BradyCampaign.org. How does each group try to appeal to potential supporters? How do they try to attract and involve members? Consider the arguments raised on both sides and respond to the question: Are tougher gun control laws necessary?

Personal reflection

Length: Minimum of a 4-page paper (double spaced, 12 point font) NOTE: The length of your paper is to be the full text and does not include the reference list or bibliography.

– Format – PDF, .doc, .docx, .rtf.

– References: In your essay, you will refer to a minimum of 8 references from the text/ course readings, videos, Discussions, and/or personal experiences to support your positions and perspectives.

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Throughout the term, you have researched a wide diversity of “Art Worlds” / art sectors. You have discovered many aspects of the art and creative sectors, how they are managed, the various roles required within an organization and the many details that are very much a part of these art and creative sectors.

Your past assignments were an exploration of an arts sector that were of interest to you. You were open to new ideas and concepts of art worlds and/or art and creative sectors and you were the creator of your own art world / creative sector. You will reflect on the choices you made in your research and will share your realizations about what you discovered in that research.

You are to review your experiences with the content in this course and reflect personally to what you have discovered. Use your contributions to the discussions and your observations of other students in your reflection.

Refer to your past assignments, particularly, Listed at the end of this post

– Week 4: Personal Investigation of an Arts Sector (Art World)

– Week 6: Midterm – Identify an Art World

– Week 8: Personal Investigation of an Arts Sector (Arts World – Research &

Discussion)

In addition, you are to reflect on your journey through this class. Note, this is not a course evaluation, it is your personal experience expressed through a reflective paper. This is about you and your experiences. Your final paper will be aminimum 4-page reflective paper (you may write more) on your experience in this class. You will cite a minimum of 8 references from the readings, lectures, videos and/or Discussion responses to support your positions and perspectives. Include the following parameters:

1. How has this class experience and your personal research enhanced your ability to understand the Arts and Creative Sectors?

     a) Highlight specific aspects of the course that assisted you in this understanding.

     b) How did your fellow students’ assignments and discussions contribute to your understanding?

2. What has changed in terms of your perspective of how you now see the “arts world” and/or ”creative sectors?

      a) What specific arts sector and role would be of most interest to you?

      b) How do you see the possibility of your role and possible involvement in an “arts world” or  

          creative sector in the future?

3. Did you encounter a “break-through moment” where you “saw” a perspective that previously was not in your experience? Describe your experience.

4. How has this class informed your identity as a possible participant in the “business of the arts”?

5. What other perspectives were prominent in your reflection?

Sketch the density curve of the sampling distribution

The Census Bureau reports that households spend an average of 31% of their total spending on housing. A homebuilders association in Cleveland believes that this average is lower in their area. They interview a sample of 40 households in the Cleveland metropolitan area to learn what percent of their spending goes toward housing. Take mean Mu to be the mean percent of spending devoted to housing among all Cleveland households. We want to test the hypotheses Ho: mean = 31%
Ha: mean < 31%

Assume that the population standard deviation is 9.6%.

a) What is the sampling distribution of the mean percent x-bar that the sample spends on housing if the null hypotheseis it true? Sketch the density curve of the sampling distribution. Be sure to locate mean and standard deviationn correctly.

B) Suppose that the study finds x-bare = 30.2% for the 40 households in the sample. Mark this point on the axis in your sketch. Then suppose that the study result is x-bar = 27.6%. Mark this point on your sketch. Referring to your sketch, explain in simple housing is less than 31%, whereas the other result is not.

C) Shade the area under the curve that gives the P-value for the result x-bar 30.2%. (Note that we are looking for evidence tht spending is less than the null hypothesis states.) Now shade differently the area under the curve that represents the P-value for x-bar = 27.6%. Find these two P-values.

Probability related to blood sample test

To speed up the process in a blood testing procedure, blood samples from 3 people are combined into one mixture. The mixture will on test negative if all individual samples are negative. If the probability than an individual sample tests positive is 10%, what is the probability that a mixture of the three will test positive?