Plea bargaining is a fixture in the American Criminal justice system. A lot of work can go into a properly constructed plea bargain, but to some it may seem like the easy way out. The written assignment this week is for you to thoroughly discuss the pros and cons of the plea bargain as used in the American court system, and to describe why the plea bargain is used so often, the mechanics of how a plea bargain comes about, and what some of the positive and negative outcomes of using it are.

For reference material, use at least two or more of the following sources, and remember to identify passages in your essay where you are quoting, paraphrasing, or summarizing as well as the source you are using:

Justice Department of United States Government

Department of Homeland Security

National Institute of Justice

National Criminal Justice Reference Services

Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)

Your paper must be formatted in the following manner:

The paper must be 500-750 words in length. Only the body of the paper counts towards the length. No information that belongs on a title page or reference page will count towards the length requirement.

Use Times New Roman 12 point font, and double-space your lines.

APA Formatting and References.

Purpose of Assignment

Students start to think about how change may impact an organization, how leadership is effective or ineffective in communicating, and to hear from other students about types of changes experienced or researched. Organizations are impacted by change both internally and externally.

Assignment Steps

Choose an organization at which you have worked or with which you are familiar.

Examine the type of change experienced (current or past employer or a company that your facilitator approves). This is an organization you will be using throughout the entire class.

Reflect on how the leadership introduced/announced the change and the reason for the change.

Prepare a graphic that illustrates your analysis of the change and in 1,050 words, cover the following:

• Identify the type of change
• Explain how the change was communicated
• Identify which leaders were involved in the communication
• Identify the change model (if possible)

Format your assignment consistent with APA guidelines. (Use walmart as company)

you will imagine what it would be like to be a knight in King Arthur’s court in Camelot.

You will be the protagonist of your story, so this should be written in a first person point of view. You have read all about chivalry in this unit, have studied examples of knights, and you will be taking this knowledge with you to Camelot. You will also be fully accepted by King Arthur as a knight and outfitted with shining armor accordingly.

You will be spending a week as a knight. During this week, three events will occur, similar to the ones we read about in the selections from this unit. Choose three from among the following options:

• Negotiate a peace agreement with a rogue knight (as in Le Mort d’Arthur)
• Lead an army into an epic battle (as in Le Mort d’Arthur)
• Receive an order to complete a task from King Arthur (as in Le Mort d’Arthur)
• Face temptation (as in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight)
• Receive a challenge for a duel (as in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight)
• Fall in courtly love and pursue a romance (as in a Knight’s Tale)
• Recruit a squire (as in Don Quixote)

INSTRUCTIONS

For each event you face, you must acknowledge the chivalrous thing to do:

• What is the chivalrous thing to do in this situation?
• Why do you think this the chivalrous thing to do?
• In the stories you have studied, how did the knights react to this specific situation?

You will need to provide support for this. Your support may be a recollection of the text when a character faced this situation; if so, provide a quote from the story. Or, you may choose to support it with research instead. You can use a link provided in the course or find one of your own. (Make sure to include a Works Cited page.)

Once you have acknowledged the chivalrous thing to do, you may choose to either do the chivalrous thing or not. You must behave chivalrously at least once, and you must break the code of chivalry at least once. Justify your decisions! You must have a reason why you choose to do the right thing or the wrong thing in each scenario. Remember – Sir Bedivere had a hard time throwing Excalibur away as he was told to! However, Sir Bedivere also had a specific reason for disobeying his king’s orders.

Be detailed. Write these scenarios loosely based on the stories we read, but take liberties to create your own adventure. I should be able to see your understanding of the texts and of the code of chivalry, but this should be a fun piece that showcases your creativity and imaginatio

Tie your story or essay together to create a cohesive piece. Since this is a unique and somewhat absurd situation, spend your first paragraph introducing your reader to the scenario. This may mean discussing what you learned in the course, describing the time-travel experience, or detailing your first meeting with King Arthur. Your conclusion should wrap up your paper with a discussion of your experience and perhaps your return home.

You may choose to write this narratively (like a novel), as a diary entry, a letter, or just a report to your teacherabout your experience. Embrace the project! Write as though you are truly living this!

This essay should be between three and seven pages (750-1750 words) in length. Your final draft should be saved and submitted as .doc or .pdf file. It should be in 12-point font in Times New Roman.

10% of your grade will be on grammar and mechanics. Write as clearly and correctly as you can. This means that 90% of your grade is based on your ideas – however, you will not earn an A if you do not proofread carefully and check for errors.

Reply to the posts (100 words minimum for each reply). In your reply, take a position either for or against the position, but back your argument with evidence in either case.

Personally, I don’t think that alcohol abuse should be replaced with another term. I think that for someone who is abusing alcohol and overusing alcohol then they are in fact abusing the substance and there should not be a nice or politically correct term created for that. I think that the term alcohol abuse is overused to describe any form of drinking that is not set forth by the specific guidelines for responsibly drinking. In the Navy our drinking policy is no more than one drink per hour with a max of three drinks on an occasion. That is considered alcohol abuse, which to me seems a little bit ridiculous. For me I don’t really drink that often, but when I do drink it could be considered abusing alcohol because of the amount in one sitting. But it could be considered alcohol misuse since it’s only once in a blue moon, I don’t know if it should be labeled alcohol abuse. Additionally, I think some of the other terms that were given as an example do not really fit what is trying to be described such as alcohol addiction which is the inability to make it through life without the need to use alcoholic substances, or alcoholism which could be used to describe someone with a family history of alcohol abuse or someone addicted to alcohol. For the most part alcohol abuse I feel is used as a catch all term to describe many different problems when it comes to alcohol use and I think there should be different terms to describe different scenarios.