Best Writer

Length: 5-6 pages (excluding cover page and references).
Choose either personality, psychopathy, or gender for this topic.
For personality: What brain structures and functions have been associated with the Big Five and HEXACO personality dimensions? What are the problems with the brain correlates of personality? Should brain activity be considered the cause of personality, the effect of personality, the same as personality, or is it not relevant? Simply stating your position (“the brain causes personality”) is not enough. You have to back up your arguments with empirical and philosophical evidence.
For psychopathy: What brain areas have been associated with psychopathy? What are the problems with the brain correlates of psychopathy? Should brain activity be considered the cause of psychopathy, the effect of psychopathy, the same as psychopathy, or is it not relevant? Simply stating your position (“the brain causes psychopathy”) is not enough. You have to back up your arguments with empirical and philosophical evidence.
For gender: What is the difference between sex and gender? What is the evidence for both sex and gender existing on a spectrum? List both structural and functional evidence as well as cultural evidence for a gender spectrum.

Imagine yourself as the CEO of a company in an industry that interests you. Identify the major global trends that affect the company, analyze the impact of those trends on the company, and identify sources you, as the CEO, could use to monitor those trends. How can you use those trends to create value for the company?

Written Assignment: Biology and Technology in the Real World
Addresses course outcomes 1-4:
recognize and explain how the scientific method is used to solve problems
make observations and discriminate between scientific and pseudoscientific explanations
weigh evidence and make decisions based on strengths and limitations of scientific knowledge and the scientific method
use knowledge of biological principles, the scientific method, and appropriate technologies to ask relevant questions, develop hypotheses, design and conduct experiments, interpret results, and draw conclusions
1. Select one of the topics listed below (a-e).
2. Find at least three reliable information sources related to your chosen topic. You are encouraged to use the UMGC library in your search: https://libguides.umgc.edu/science .
3. Write a paper with title page, introduction, several paragraphs addressing the questions, conclusion and references. You must write in your own words and paraphrase information from the selected information sources, addressing each of the questions for your chosen topic. Your paper should consist of less than 10% direct quotes. Your paper should be 750-1500 words, excluding references and title page.
Use APA style for references. Please visit the UMGC Citing and Writing page for citation, writing and academic integrity help: https://sites.umgc.edu/library/libhow/gethelp-citing.cfm
4. Submit your assignment to the Assignment folder by the due date listed in the course schedule. The originality of your assignment will be checked with Turnitin. Please review the originality report (https://libguides.umgc.edu/turnitin-students), and if needed, submit a revised assignment before the submission deadline.
Topic Selection:
a) Stem cells. Your friend has suffered a spinal cord injury after a bad car accident. The medical team has decided that he is a good candidate for a clinical trial using stem cell therapy. Your friend has not had a biology course since high school, so you decide to write him a letter sharing your knowledge of stem cells. Include in your letter a description of the biology of stem cells and how these cells are unique from other cells. Contrast the different types of stem cells, including pros and cons for each type. Explain how stems cells can be used to treat diseases and injury, with special focus on spinal cord injuries. Include information from at least one research study or clinical trial. Conclude with your own opinion.
b) Genetically modified organisms (GMOs). A friend tells you that she avoids foods containing GMOs because they are unhealthy. You decide to use the knowledge gained from your biology class and some additional research to form your own opinion on GMOs. Answer the following questions backed up by reliable information sources. What is the purpose of genetically engineering of crop plants? Include at least two specific examples of commonly grown GMO crops. How are GMOs created? Use the provided course materials and make a connection to the central dogma of molecular biology in your explanation. Which foods in your supermarket contain GMOs? Are foods that contain GMOs safe for human consumption? What types of regulations exist for these foods? Clearly explain your reasoning for each answer in your paper and conclude whether or not you agree with your friend.
c) Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats (CRISPR) has been the most recent breakthrough discovery in bioengineering that enables scientists to edit DNA. Because you have studied biology in this course, you have volunteered at your niece’s Middle School Science Club to monitor a student debate about CRISPR. The students will be watching the following video before the discussion: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=252&v=2pp17E4E-O8 and you need to be prepared in case there are any questions. Please research and write an answer to each of the following questions: What is “CRISPR”? What role does Cas9 play in the CRISPR process? How does the CRISPR-Cas9 system snip and replace any DNA sequence? What are the potential benefits and drawbacks of gene editing? Include specific examples. Do you believe that the inherent risks of modifying animal DNA is worth the rewards? Explain. Do you believe that it is ethical to genetically engineer humans and/or animals? Explain.
d) Vaccines. Your friend is worried about the many vaccines that his newborn son is scheduled to receive and asks you for advice since you are taking a biology course. Start with an explanation of how vaccines work. Briefly contrast the traditional methods used to create vaccines with more recently used biotechnology techniques. Then list some of the diseases that babies and children in the US are routinely vaccinated against. How has vaccinations impacted the frequency of these diseases over the past 100 years? Why are some people worried about giving their children vaccines? Is there scientific evidence to support these concerns? Conclude with advice to your friend in regard to getting the recommended vaccines based on what you learned from reliable information sources.
e) Fracking (hydraulic fracturing) and tar sands (oil sands). With society’s dependence on nonrenewable fossil fuels, the oil & gas industry is turning to hydraulic fracturing and tar (oil) sands to extract natural gas and oil. A friend asks you “What’s all this controversy in the news about fracking and tar sands?” Briefly explain to your friend how hydraulic fracturing and tar (oil) sands are used to obtain these fossil fuels. Then, in more detail, describe the environmental problems that may result from these processes and why they are controversial. Issues that should be addressed involves water, air and soil pollution with special focus on global climate change, effects on human health, and effects on other species and natural ecosystems. Finally, give your opinions on possible solutions to these environmental problems, with your reasoning backed by information from reliable information sources.

Case study to read is attached on files.

Read Case Study 6-3, “The Influenza Work Rule,” on page 319 in your textbook, and address the prompts below.

1. Analyze the arguments over whether the two parties bargained. Did management bargain in good faith with the union over the policy? Did they bargain to impasse? If so, does that give management the right to unilaterally implement its last offer?

2. Was management required to develop this new policy by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)? Did that trump labor-management considerations? Explain your reasoning.

3. Using a database (e.g., Bloomberg’s BNA’s Labor & Employment Law Resource Center), look at the Raffles v. Wichelhaus case (also known as the Peerless case) and the First National Maintenance Corporation v. National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) case. Evaluate management’s argument that the flu-prevention policy is a core business decision in light of those case decisions.

4. Was management required to take this case to grievance arbitration? Explain your reasoning, considering the other precedent cases cited the managerial rights clause and the and zipper clause.

Your response to these prompts must be a minimum of two pages in length, not counting the title page and references page. Introduction and Conclusion is needed. You are required to use one outside resource beyond your textbook (blogs are not acceptable). Use APA Style to cite and reference all quoted and paraphrased material, including your textbook.

https://youtu.be/V4YL7Iyh3S4

In this assignment, you will choose any TWO artworks from Chapters 3.3, 3.4. or 3.5 in your Gateways textbook. Once you choose your artworks, you will answer the questions below. Be sure to follow the instructions and use as many vocabulary words as appropriately possible when you as you complete the assignment. Submit your paper in the numbered format you see below. I expect 400-500 words (not including the questions) for each image you choose.
Hint: You only need your text book for this assignment and should not do any online research for your responses.
For example:
1. My image is ……
2. This object was a ______ used by……..
Answer these questions for EACH of the two artworks that you choose.
1. Choose an image from one of the Non-Western cultures in Chapters 3.3, 3.4 or 3.5 in your textbook. Include the title, date, culture and any other identifying information with the image. Also include the page number and figure number of the image.
2. Tell me what purpose this object held in the culture or community that created it.
3. List 2 Elements of Design and two Principles of Design used in the artwork. Explain how the artist used these Elements and Principles.
4. What medium is used to create the piece? Does the medium have any significance to the interpretation or use of the artwork?

Identify a theme that reflects a cultural or feminine aspect of the work. How did the writer develop this theme? What concepts or ideologies does this work challenge? Is this theme still relevant within current society? Why or why not?

Prompt… Which did you do first? Did you see things in the written version that you missed in the play, or vice-versa? Did watching enhance your understanding of reading the play? Explain.

A Raisin in the Sun. PDF
Movie- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZmCR1k2s6o

Research and choose an advertisement that appeals to customers’ sense of wanting to belong to a group OR one that appeals to customers who want to be recognized as an individual.
Submit this commercial (or link to the commercial) along with a 300-500 word essay answering the following questions:
What is more appealing to consumers, belonging to a group or being an individual? Why? How does the commercial you chose illustrate this?

Write a two (2) page summary and analysis (not including title page and reference page) of an ethical dilemma that your professor will
present to you in-class. You will need to indicate examples of the three dimensions of ethics in the example: personal, social, and
conservation.
Your essay must:
 Be written in the third-person point of view
 Summarize the ethical dilemma and identify the dimensions of ethics (personal, social, and conservation)
 Develop a thesis statement, which indicates your overall controlling idea about the ethical dilemma
 Present examples from a reliable resource to support your claims
 Explain why this issue is relevant and important to resolve
 Determine and analyze the future questions and complications of this debate
 Conclude with a paragraph that summarizes the information you presented and its importance.

Font/Format Requirements:
12 pt. Times New Roman Font, APA Format (Title Page, In-Text Citations, and Reference Page).

Explain what eco-terrorism is and if it represents a more significant threat against our national or transnational security than any of the other forms of terrorism considered in the course up to this point.

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