DQ 1

Describe and discuss the differences among qualitative and quantitative research reports. What is the purpose of qualitative research as this relates to how you will approach report writing for your study? Provide at least two scholarly references to justify your responses.

DQ 2

You are conducting a research study on the long-term effects of functional family therapy on promoting gang-affiliation resistance within a group of Mexican-American families with adolescents. Describe the variables being explored within this study; discuss the process by which you would ensure culturally relevant and ethical report writing will be achieved by you in considering reporting of significant and nonsignificant data results, summary, and conclusions.

Needs to be 7 to 10 pages with 8 to 10 supporting in text
citations and 8 to 10 references.  I did
the abstract and there needs to be an intro page and all of the questions have
to be answered. Need supporting evidence for and against.  The scenario I am using is below as well

The Ethical Dilemma Paper (due at the end of Unit 7) should
focus on a real-life example from your own work. This should be a true ethical
dilemma for you –not a simple black & white decision, not a decision that
your client or a colleague has to make, and not something prescribed by your
supervisor or agency.

An ethical dilemma is where you are making a decision about
your own course of action, in a situation of great moral/ethical ambiguity,
often including unavoidable conflicts between important values.

One of the most important aspects of the assignment is to
make sure that the problem that you come up with is actually a true ethical
dilemma.  Many students come up with
examples that are ethical problems, but not ethical dilemmas.  One of the keys to recognizing whether or not
a problem is truly an ethical dilemma has to do with the level of moral
ambiguity.  Ethical dilemmas are high in
moral ambiguity.  Let me point you to two
sections in the text that may be of some help. 
On pages 59-60, Linzer discusses the concept of “moral traces”.  He states: “The concept ‘moral traces’ refers
to the consequences of having chosen one path, as opposed to the other path in
an ethical dilemma.  Since both choices
are ethical, the decision to act on one creates the feeling of having violated
the other.  There is no winner in ethical
decision making” (p. 60 italics added). 
One of the observations that Dr. Linzer made in his lectures was that in
a true ethical dilemma you never know whether or not you made the “right”
decision because both arguments are compelling and you will never know the
outcome of the option that you did not choose and you will always wonder if you
make the right decision.  That is the
“moral trace”.

The second section that you should read is on pages 204 to
207.  Linzer notes: “In circumstances
pervaded by ethical ambiguity, the key is to acknowledge the complexity of the
issues and the pull of contradictory moral imperatives” (p. 205).  Read that section and if you want to be sure
that your scenario is a true ethical dilemma you can check with me.  I don’t want you to spend a lot of time
developing and writing the paper only for me to tell you that it is not an
ethical dilemma.  It is much easier if
you have any doubts to contact me directly and describe the scenario.  And remember, in an ethical dilemma it is you
and not the client who has to make the decision.

 When writing your
paper, please follow this outline:

1.  Briefly
describe your agency’s services and setting.

2.  Present a
conflict situation from your own human service work that involves any number of
parties, including yourself (you must be a part of the conflict/dilemma), the
client, the family, the agency, the board, the funding agency, etc.  Summarize the conflict in one paragraph.

3.  Clearly
state the ethical dilemma.  Discuss what
makes this an ethical dilemma.  It would
be excellent if you can identify the values that are in conflict (For more on
this please see the mini-lecture on Beauchamp and Childress). Analyze the
conflict from the value perspective of each of the parties.  (You could use Levy’s classification of values
to do this.)

4.  Offer your
resolution of this dilemma and the reasoning behind your decision.  Your decision should be theoretically
justified.  (You cannot simply say that I
decided to do this based on my own personal values.) Be sure to substantiate
your rationale with the relevant literature.

Abstract

Throughout the career of any individual working in the human
services field they are bound to be confronted with some type of ethical
dilemma.  An ethical dilemma can be
defined as any situation that presents choices and behaviors considered disagreeable
to the decision maker based on the potential negative consequences.  Because there are unwanted consequences no
matter what choice is made, it makes difficult the decision maker to make a
clear cut decision of what is the right or wrong course of action.  The following will be a presentation of such
a dilemma. A discussion will be made as to what makes this scenario an ethical
dilemma, along with analyzing of the dilemma, resolution and reasoning behind
the final decision to be made.   

The agency that I worked for provided services for behaviorally
challenged children and served families and children who have found themselves
in crisis due to substance abuse, mental health issues or other debilitating
issues (Holy Family Institute, 2014). The children in this program were
generally housed with this agency under the direction of Children Protective
Services and/or Juvenile Justice.  This
program also provided family programs to assist those families that were having
difficulties with neglect, poverty and abuse. 
 Direct care and oversight was
given to these children 24 hours 7 days a week while residing at the
facility.  Many of these children
attended school on the facilities main campus however many were afforded the privileged
of attending school off facility grounds in their own school districts. 

Scenerio:  I am
employed at an adolescent facility.  I
have been assigned the girls unit.  Upon
their return from school the girls are sitting in the main room discussing
their day at school.  One of he girls
discloses to the other girls that she is attracted to one of the clients on the
boys unit.  I am concerned of her
interest in this particular boy because he is diagnosed with HIV.  I pull the girl into the office to discuss
the relationship she has with this particular boy.  She discloses to me that they were in fact
sexually active and she has on occasion had sexual intercourse with him without
condoms.  My concern is that this young
girl may have been unknowingly infected with HIV.  Because of HIPPA laws and the confidentiality
I am unable to disclose to the client that she may have been infected.  Later I conduct a meeting with the male
client.  He reminds me that
confidentiality forbids me from disclosing his medical condition.  My dilemma is whether or not I disclose to
the girl and her parents that she may have been exposed to HIV.

Assignment 2: The Statutes

Research, review, and analyze Anti-Miscegenation Statutes in the United States and chose two (2) relevant cases. Then, write a 4-5 page paper in which you:

1. Analyze and evaluate each case independently by providing the following (about two paragraphs per case):

• Facts of the case
• Issues
• Rule

1. Compare and contrast both cases in regards to the Anti-Miscegenation Statutes.
2. Analyze how this statute could have influenced Brown v. Board of Education, 347 U.S. 483 (1954) and the Fourteenth Amendment.
3. Explain the significance of this statute to the Defense of Marriage Act (DOM).

Your assignment must:

• Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; references must follow APA or school-specific format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.
• Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required page length.

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

• Apply and rule on moral and ethical analysis to issues relevant to the public administration decision-making process.
• Interpret the language of the U.S. Constitution and the U.S. legal system in order to explain the principles and process of constitutional, regulatory, and administrative laws at the federal and state levels.
• Use the “case” approach to the U.S. legal system for researching cases, laws, and other legal communications using technology and information resources.
• Use technology and information resources to research issues in constitution and administrative law.
• Write clearly and concisely about issues in constitution and administrative law using proper writing mechanics.

Here is the requirement: please make sure you meet all the requirement. Beside the quote from movie, make sure to have two quotes from listed reading.

Here is the link for the movie, I will pay for the 4 dollars.

Background:

In the “Author’s Note” of Behind the Beautiful Forevers, Katherine Boo discusses the conditions in the undercities of India that make apathy, selfishness, and even outright disregard for life as common as the garbage littering the slums, and asks, “How does that happen? How—to use Abdul’s formulation—do children intent on being ice become water?” (254). In other words, how do we lose our ethics, our morals, our humanity? And as we see the various individuals in Annawadi confront the challenges of the slum and rise to meet them in varying ways, ways that exaggerate and perhaps illuminate the choices people make and why they make them, we marvel with Boo that “some people are good, and that many try to be” (254). Yet it is so easy to gaze from across the globe at others and ponder the choices they make, while leaving our own decisions and lives unexamined. This is never truer than with the current fast fashion industry that everyone is a part of. If you now own, or ever have owned, a piece of clothing that you did not stitch, from material you did not make, from fibers you did not grow, you are part of the fashion industry, for better or worse. “So, what is wrong with that?” you may ask. And the answer would be, “Nothing,” unless you began to look more deeply into the true cost of the global fashion industry.Director of The True Cost, Andrew Morgan, allows us to do just that, to peek behind the curtain of the runway, the glossy ads of the clothing companies, and the promises of our apparel, and see the workers, the land, the water, and even our values damaged by that $5 shirt that was in one day and out the next. And in the film, we also see that familiar judgment being passed from one group to the next, never quite landing on a single party who will take responsibility for being part of the cause or part of the solution for this destruction.

Your Task: You will have 1 HOUR 50 MIN to craft a thesis-driven, argumentative essay in response to the following questions: Who or what is most responsible for the human rights and environmental violations occurring in the fast fashion industry? And who should assume the greatest responsibility in developing and implementing solutions?

Hints: The following are not required questions, but suggested avenues for investigation and consideration:

• What are the true costs of fast fashion? Whose human rights are violated?
• What other damages are done by the industry through the entire cycle of production including growth of crops, creation of fabrics, manufacturing of clothing, advertising, recycling, etc.
• Who or what is responsible for each of these costs/problems?
• How do these corporations, groups, individuals or conditions contribute to the problem?
• What are the claims that fashion companies make regarding ethical practices?
• What are the “voluntary codes of conduct” that companies use and are they effective?
• What solutions are there to each of the costs/problems?
• Who can contribute to these solutions?
• What power does each group have to make these changes? What limitations or obstacles might they face?
• How would you rank the responsibilities of the various groups? Is one more responsible than others?

Requirements: A strong essay will . . .

• Open with a brief introduction paragraph which hooks the reader, sets up the topic, and correctly references the film.
• Provide a focused thesis statement at the end of your introduction which clearly states your argument in response to the task above.

• Categorize your ideas to organize and group your points.
• Provide at least 3 well-developed, coherent PIE paragraphs (body paragraphs).
• Clearly introduce, quote, paraphrase, detail and cite information from the film, the selected readings, the UDHR if applicable, and limited outside sources.
• Briefly conclude by offering a direct proposal of your own for your readers.
• Use MLA format.
• Use clear, complex, and logical sentences.
• Be carefully proofread for minimal sentence-level errors.

Texts/Activities:

• The True Cost, directed by Andrew Morgan
• “Who Really Benefits from Sweatshops?” by David Wilson

• “Sadly, Bangladesh Simply Cannot Afford Rich World Safety . . .” by Tim Worstall
• “Sweatshops in Bangladesh Improve the Lives of their Workers . . .” by Benjamin Powell
• “The Bangladesh Disaster and Corporate Social Responsibility” by Howard Husock
• “How Women in the Fashion Industry Are Designing a Better World“ by Roshni Chengappa
• “4 Years after Rana Plaza . . .” by Ashley Westerman (CR 73-78)
• Optional Research into a clothing company
• The UDHR

Instructions:

In this class, we are going to define an Executive Summary as a document which is prepared using MS Word. It is to be 2 pages of double spaced text, 1 inch margins, Times New Roman font at 12 point and a third page which is the bibliography for the minimum of three academic sources cited in the Executive Summary. In general, an Executive Summary will concisely present the content from more than one document, it is written in non-technical language, it makes a recommendation and contains a final conclusion.

Topic:

You have been asked how to succeed in learning in a fully online class and who should or should not take fully online training. Give specific recommendations and examples of each of the relevant points. You may use your own personal situation if that is appropriate. You may also use this web survey that gives a measure of characteristics which support learning in an online course.