Review the article Cherry Hill Teen Gets Probation in Non-Fatal Stabbing, and answer the following questions:

1. Do you feel that the sentence was appropriate?
2. If you were the judge, what would you have done?

In response to your peers, agree or disagree with how they would have acted if they had been the judge. Be sure to explain why you agree or disagree.

This document provides standards on professional conduct. You are required to read pages 15–79 only. You will use this resource in this module’s discussion.

https://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/ojjdp/83569.pdf

Peer post one

I do agree with the judge in his sentencing of the youth who was sentenced for stabbing another youth. Initially when I read the headline and began reading the article I didn’t think my opinion would be to side with the judge. After reading the entire article, and a few other ones, it changed my opinion. Teenage boys have, and always will, argue over girls but to show up to ones house three on one with the intentions of harming another changed my mind. The defendant has a right to defend himself. Getting a knife to do so may have not been the answer but when three other teenagers his age show up at his house wanting to fight him I can see where he might not have been thinking rationally and wanted to defend himself.

If I were the judge in this case I think the only thing I would have done differently would be to give the defendant more community service hours. By stabbing somebody in the throat I believe his intentions were more then just trying to hurt him. He committed a pretty serious action and I believe by increasing his community service hours could help him find some purpose and influence him to make better choices in the future and be a productive member of society.

Peer post two

In this case I do believe that he was given a proper sentence. Because he was pursued by the victim outside of his own home one would think that he was just reacting in self defense but because he went back inside and got a knife, this shows that he had to intention of hurting the boy. Yes, he was up against 3 people compared to just him self, but he did not have to react this way. He admitted that he could have acted differently and I believe that because he recognized that he should have reacted to this situation gives him a better chance of changing his behavior. Having him waive his rights of self-defense was the proper thing to do because they would have never won this case as a self-defense case. He thought out about going back in side, and returned with a weapon and ultimately hurt someone because of it. He didn’t deserve to be ganged up on like this but he didn’t need to react in this manner. I think that he will benefit from the community service hours and but I do not believe that a psychological evaluation is needed.

If I were the judge in this case, I would look at all the factors. They were young boys fighting over a girl and it got out of hang. But the defendant was ganged up on by the other three boys and he reacted. He didn’t need to react this way but I do not believe that he should be under a psychological evaluation because this might create more issues for the boy. Because his mind is at an impressionable age, he may believe that their is something wrong with him for protecting him self when he was backed into a corner in his own home. I believe that community service and anger management may be a better option then the psych evaluation.

Rick Hall owns a card shop, Hall’s Cards. The following cash information is available for the month of August 2018:

As of August 31, the bank statement shows a balance of $12,160. The August 31 unadjusted balance in the Cash account of Hall’s Cards is $8,275. A review of the bank statement revealed the following information:

1.A deposit of $1,350 on August 31, 2018, does not appear on the August bank statement.

2.It was discovered that a check to pay for baseball cards was correctly written and paid by the bank for $2,240 but was recorded on the books as $3,140.

3.When checks written during the month were compared with those paid by the bank, three checks amounting to $4,385 were found to be outstanding.

4.A debit memo for $50 was included in the bank statement for the purchase of a new supply of checks.

Required

Using Excel prepare a bank reconciliation at the end of August showing the true cash balance. Use a format similar to the example found on page 141 of your text, Exhibit 4.3.

In this discussion, you will consider various jobs of interest to students in the applied behavioral sciences.  In addition, you will meet and learn more about the other members of your class and their interests, abilities, and goals by practicing skills that will be useful to you as you pursue future academic and career goals.

Visit websites that describe available jobs, and identify a job in the field of applied behavioral sciences that you may want to pursue (e.g., https://www.usajobs.gov/, http://www.bls.gov/ooh/, https://www.onetonline.org/,http://www.occupationalinfo.org/, and/or http://www.careeronestop.org/).  Familiarize yourself with the various responsibilities you are likely to have if you perform the selected job.  Then imagine you have completed all required training and are now interviewing for a coveted position. 

For your introductory post, consider the following points:

1. Provide as a heading for your mock interview presentation the title (i.e., label) of the position for which you are applying, followed by a brief description (similar to a job advertisement/announcement).   
2. The formal portion of the interview consists of a meeting with the search committee.  As you look around the table, you see various faces of people with whom you are likely to work.  Each will have the opportunity to ask you questions. This is the role your classmates will take.  Prior to the questioning, however, the designated speaker invites you to provide relevant information about yourself.  Prepare an introduction that illustrates your suitability for this job.  Consider the following points in your presentation:

• Identify your area of expertise and explain why this position is especially appealing to you.   
• Describe your professional development based on relevant academic and/or work experiences, and indicate future aspirations.   
• Include any additional information you believe would make you an asset in this position and for this organization.

For your responses to classmates, assume either or both of the following roles:

1. Member of the search committee.  Ask your peers questions regarding their initial post as if you were a member of the search committee.  That is, assume your task is to gather information about a candidate to determine whether he/she is suitable for the selected position.
2. Candidate.  Respond to the questions that the members of the search committee (i.e., your classmates and/or instructor) have asked you to determine whether you are suitable for the selected position.

Guided Response:
Peer responses may vary in length, but should be detailed and thought provoking.  Your grade will reflect both the quality of your initial post and the depth of your responses to your classmates and instructor.  Keep in mind that your instructor will always play the role of a member of the search committee.  

The interviewing resources provided on the webpage of the Ashford University Career and Alumni Services may be helpful (see https://careerservices.ashford.edu/OneFlow/Interview.aspx; pay particular attention to the Ashford Guide to Interviewing and Interview Questions links).  Post your initial response by Day 3 (Thursday).  Reply to at least two of your peers by Day 7 (Monday).

Respond

Unions have declined in scope and importance over the past 20 to 30 years. Today, less than 10% of the U.S. workforce is represented by a union, and most of those members work for the public sector. However, there are still powerful unions in other countries. Given these thoughts, address the following:

• The role of unions in the workplace today.
• The principal value that unions can bring to the workplace, along with the challenges they may also present to the organization.
• The challenges that human resources may experience in creating a conducive relationship between unions and management in foreign countries as opposed to in the domestic country.

Requirements:

• Your written paper should be three to four pages in length, not counting the required title and reference pages.
• You need to cite at least two sources for this assignment, outside of the textbook. These should be scholarly or peer-reviewed resources.
• Your paper must be formatted according to APA Requirements.

Grammar and punctuation are key! Sample paper attached.

Part 1: Recognizing Synthesis of Multiple Sources: Creating an Outline as Your Early Draft

Overview

If you’ve ever assembled a jigsaw puzzle then you know that each piece makes a contribution to the whole puzzle, the whole story. Writing a literature review is a bit like assembling a jigsaw puzzle. All of the individual pieces (the sources’ arguments) must be put together in order to reveal the whole picture, which in the case of the literature review, is the current state of thinking about your selected topic. As a literature review is different than an annotated bibliography, which presents source summaries one after the other, it can be challenging to structure and organize your research so that you’re showing the current state of knowledge on your topic.

Where do you begin? Your goal as a researcher, who has analyzed a body of literature, is to determine the current state of knowledge about your research topic. One of the tools you can use to process the source information, organize your thoughts and research, and shape your Project 3 Literary Review, is an outline.

Skills & Strategies

This Part 1 Assignment will help you to

• build on your information literacy, critical thinking, note-taking, and assessment skills
• assess the credibility and significance of each of your sources
• summarize each source and identify its contribution to the state of knowledge on your research topic
• identify the intersections and connections among your collected research, often represented as key issues, sub-issues, major themes or trends, or topics
• analyze the sources’ major points and points of repetition among the sources’ arguments
• synthesize and organize source material with a goal to shape the conversation on state of knowledge on your research topic

Description (and Step by Step)

For Part 1, you will construct a full sentence alphanumeric outline. Prior to writing your outline, you should consider the following pre-outline questions/steps:

1. Summarize and cite your sources using the rhetorical summary model as a guide. Zero in on the key issues each source reveals and the author’s position on each issue.
2. Step back and see the key issues that the sources’ arguments reveal when the bigger picture emerges as a result of your synthesis. These key issues are the repeated topics of concern raised by your sources, the intersections/connections, points of agreement, and/or the points of contradictions you have discovered.
3. With each key issue the big picture reveals, note any subtopics within the key issues, highlight examples, paraphrase source material, and sparingly use quotes that provide detail.
4. Now you’re ready to write your thesis and organize your material by key issues.

The following suggested steps will help you to present the intended content of your literature review and organize that content in a logical, coherent manner:

1. Begin with a centered working title for your Project 3 Literature Review
2. Construct your thesis, the sentence or two that reveals the current state of knowledge on your topic: the overarching focus of your literature review
3. Write topic sentences that introduce at least 4 major key issues. Label these major key issues as Roman Numerals (I, II, III, IV)
4. List any key issue subtopics that subdivide the major key issues further. Label these key issue subtopics in capital letters (A, B, C, etc.)
5. Note supporting points or arguments as evidence (examples, paraphrased material, brief quotes) for each key issue. Label this evidence in Alpha numerals (1, 2, 3, etc.).
6. If applicable, continue to sub-divide each supporting point until your outline is fully developed. Label any subdivisions in lower case letters (a, b, c, etc.).

Helpful Hints

You want to identify at least 4 key issues (and subsequent sub-issues if they exist) so that you have enough material related to the current state of thinking on your research topic.

Try to be as complete as you can in the details you provide (examples, paraphrased material, brief quotes) from your source material. By being thorough, you will have (1) more information to draw from, (2) an organization pattern to follow, and (3) a solid reference guide to transfer to the writing of your literature review.

While you want to quote from the research when the way something is said is unique and critical to the understanding of the argument, be careful not to overquote or use long or block quotes; otherwise.

Part 2: Advancing Your Synthesis: Writing the Intermediate Draft of Your Literature Review

Overview

By completing your Part 1 Outline, you’ve done much of the preparatory work in analyzing, synthesizing, and organizing your intermediate draft. You have already analyzed the literature on your selected topic, synthesized how each source contributes to the current state of knowledge on your selected topic, and organized the current thinking that surrounds your research topic by key issues and sub-issues that address the intersections/connections and repetitions of the sources’ concerns regarding your research topic.

Now you are ready, in Part 2, to advance your literature review by writing your intermediate Project 3 draft.

Skills & Strategies

This Part 2 Assignment will help you to

• demonstrate responsiveness within an established disciplinary context to new information, experiences, and ideas through a process of re-evaluating the ideas and/or approaches
• identify and develop organizational strategies that contribute to the effective delivery of information and argument
• analyze rhetorical effectiveness of a variety of print and non-print sources
• evaluate relevant sources according to their contexts, rhetorical situation, usefulness, and credibility for specific research tasks
• summarize research sources through effective annotation, note-taking, quotation, citation, and paraphrase
• synthesize disparate or conflicting thoughts when evaluating questions/problems to form cohesive and collaborative solutions

Description (and Step by Step)

Part 2 is a 1,000 – 1,200-word literature review draft that advances the current state of knowledge on your selected topic in an organized pattern.

While the Part 1 Outline helped you to identify the sources’ contribution of knowledge on your research topic, frame your thesis statement, and define the key issues/sub-issues that will facilitate your organizing your literature review, the writing of the intermediate draft will extend your literature review as you more fully demonstrate the current state of knowledge surrounding your selected topic.

At least six sources are required for this Intermediate Draft. Your six sources should include a combination of public and scholarly sources.

The following steps will help you to further develop your Part 2 Intermediate Draft:

1. Consider your purpose in writing the literature review: to demonstrate your understanding of the current state of thinking on your research topic by synthesizing various viewpoints and logically organizing information.
2. In Part 2, you will aim for a clear and cohesive essay that integrates those key issues and literature details that reveal the current state of knowledge on your research topic.
3. Begin with a creative title that reflects the current state of knowledge of your research topic.
4. In the introduction, explain the overarching focus of your literature review and establish why your research topic being reviewed is important. Conclude your introduction with your thesis statement, the sentence or two that reveals the current state of knowledge.
5. Divide the body of your literature review into the key issues and sub-issues you identified in your analysis of the current literature. As a reminder, these key issues and sub-issues represent the major themes, points, topics, important trends, intersections, and findings about which researchers agree or disagree. The key issues/sub-issues will represent an organized section of the literature review and will be used as a path for further discussion in the body of your literature review.
6. Introduce each key issue/sub-issue with a topic sentence that describes the synthesis. Details that follow the topic sentence should describe the literature and include source identification and evidence in the form of examples, brief quotes, and paraphrases.
7. Be sure to use clear transitions as you introduce sub-issues and sources.
8. Provide source citations according to the required guidelines.
9. Write a conclusion to your literature review that highlights the presented evidence and that demonstrates any possibilities for future research/action.
10. Proofread your literature review.

Helpful Hints

1. Focus on analysis, rather than a summary/description of what research has been done.
2. Divide body sections into key issues/sub-issues, rather than on the individual work of the researchers.
3. Review the topic sentences of each paragraph to be sure that they link back to your thesis and demonstrate a logical progression of ideas and evidence from beginning to end.