Substance abuse

Choose any treatment setting. Interview a person who participated in that time of treatment about their experience with orientation in the facility, using the following as a guide:
a. How did they feel the first time they enrolled in a treatment program?
b. How did the agency orient them as to what to expect in treatment?
c. Did it accurately prepare them for the structure of their treatment?
d. What was missing that could have been helpful for them to know in the beginning of their treatment?
e. Which of the services they received such as individual counseling, group counseling, vocational-rehabilitation, etc. were the most helpful in preparing them to leave treatment and live life on lifes terms?
2. Discuss your reactions to the interview (did you expect the answers the person gave, what was the most surprising thing you learnt).

Discuss potential data mining concerns within an organization. Then highlight potential issues with external service providers. What safeguards are necessary in both circumstances?

Note to the writer: The source is provided (https://studentprivacy.ed.gov/sites/default/files/resource_document/file/Issue%20Brief%20Data%20Security%20Top%20Threats%20to%20Data%20Protection_0.pdf)
1: What experience(s) do you have with any of the elements noted in Data Security: Top Threats to Data Protection? Were the suggested solutions employed? (Use this source to answer the question https://studentprivacy.ed.gov/sites/default/files/resource_document/file/Issue%20Brief%20Data%20Security%20Top%20Threats%20to%20Data%20Protection_0.pdf)

2: Discuss potential data mining concerns within an organization. Then highlight potential issues with external service providers. What safeguards are necessary in both circumstances?

Develop a promotional plan for a store you “inherited” in the discussion, Merchandising Software (Week 7 Discussion).

Respond to the following:
Develop a promotional plan for a store you “inherited” in the discussion, Merchandising Software (Week 7 Discussion).
1). Include your promotional objectives, the promotional mix, and the timing of the elements in the mix.
2). Provide your rationale for the plan.
Discussion Response Requirements
Be sure to respond to at least one of your classmates posts.
Copy and paste the question above the pertinent response to make it easy for others to clearly see your answers.
Fully develop your initial post with complete sentences and thoroughly address all parts of the prompt.
Do not copy and paste content from the web. This is a violation of Strayer’s Academic Integrity policy. Anything used from a source must be cited and referenced in SWS or APA. Choose one; do not use a combination of both.
Go beyond, “I agree. Great post.” Provide substantive commentary about your classmates’ posts
Remember to post early in the week to give your classmates time to read and respond.

Other Manners of Death

Assignment Description
Environmental deaths include drowning, lightning, hypothermia, and hyperthermia. Write a 35-page paper comparing environmental deaths and homicide investigations; be sure to cover the following:
Elaborate on each type of environmental death including drowning, lightning, hypothermia, and hyperthermia. (50%)
Choose a state in the United States, and research the rates of occurrence of these types of deaths in that state. (20%)
After determining the rate of occurrence, break the occurrences down into age groups, race, and sex. (25%)
The investigative approach in homicide vs. natural causes
Provide citations and references for your materials in APA style. (5%)

Shortage of Nurse Educators

Shortage
of Nurse Educators

Discuss
the culture and environment of healthcare that will affect future
advancements in nursing practice.
Instructions:
Please read the following opinion article on the
shortage of academic nurse educators. After reading, respond to the following
questions.
McIntosh,
C., & Thomas, C. (2018). Tackling the shortage of US academic nurse staff (Links
to an external site.). Nursing Management, 25(1), 16.
In
your initial response, please discuss the impact of the nurse faculty
shortage on nursing as a profession.
Describe
strategies discussed in the article that will assist in addressing the
faculty shortage.
Do
you agree with these strategies?
What
are additional strategies that might assist in the projected shortage?

Career Development

Then develop a well-written paper that includes the following:
Career delvopement, search for a job listing – Police Officer
A summary of building a professional job resume, what to include, how to sell yourself and your skills.
An assessment of practicing interview, including
what you can learn from it and how you can apply it to real life interviews. What you should know before your interview

Values are the core of humanity, and they drive behaviors in situations people face in all aspects of life. This assignment is mostly a reflection of your experience in seeking further understanding of others, and it will help you connect behaviors to values.

Values are the core of humanity, and they drive behaviors in situations people face in all aspects of life. This assignment is mostly a reflection of your experience in seeking further understanding of others, and it will help you connect behaviors to values.
Read the paper on “Leading Sustainable Change Through Self-Discovery: A Values Accountability System Defined” (Sun, 2007). Click here to download the paper. Using one of the three teams you selected for the Week 1 final project assignment, follow the values accountability process to establish a values statement for your team.

In this exercise, gather the values systems of at least three other team members (see Step 3 of the Values Accountability System). If one of the three teams you selected in Week 1 is not convenient for the project, discuss alternatives with your instructor early in the week.
Prepare a three to four page paper using Microsoft Word. Your paper should cover the following:
How does the current team environment enable or challenge the process defined by the VAsys?
How challenging was it to ask about the values of your peers?
How much agreement did you find on the surface of the values (level of individual congruence)?
How many differences were there in the interpretations of the same values?
Were there any major surprises? Explain.
How challenging was the process of coming to a consensus on top values shared by the team?
How do the values reflect team norms?

U.S. decision to declare war on Spain in 1898

Read Out of Many ch.20 and the assigned reading by Kristin L. Hoganson to prepare for this assignment.

Then craft a two-page, thesis-driven essay analyzing the U.S. decision to declare war on Spain in 1898.

Questions to consider:
1. What long-term factors encouraged the U.S. to become involved in foreign affairs in the late nineteenth century?
2. What role did “yellow journalism” play in shaping the opinions of the American public toward the war?
3. How did American ideas about honor and manhood lead the U.S. to war with Spain? (see Hoganson’s essay)

This assignment is worth 25 points and will be judged on the following criteria: (a) adequacy of reading and preparation, (b) effectiveness of written presentation (grammar and composition), (c) insight into the subject and its significance.

Submit your completed assignment to SafeAssign in one of the proper file formats.
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Payment Card Industry

Complete the following using the course
text, professional journal articles, or other reputable resources, (NO
Wikipedia). Research a recent attack on an organization that involved
passwords.
The Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data
Security Standard (DSS) is a multifaceted security standard that
includes requirements for security management, policies, procedures,
network architecture, software design, and other critical protective
measures. This comprehensive standard is intended to help organizations
proactively protect the customers account data. The Assessment
Procedures (see Readings) are used to validate that a company or
application meets the PCI DSS.
For this modules writing assignment, you are to pick ONE
of the twelve requirements to document PCI DSS Requirements and
Security Assessment Procedures v 3.2.1 that is linked above and describe
how you would assess it for an organization that processes credit card
data.
For your chosen requirement, select at
least THREE sub-requirements (e.g. 1.1, 1.2, and 1.3) and describe in
your own words how you would confirm that the sub-requirement is or is
not in place.
The detailed requirements begin on
Page 20. Testing Procedures are also included in a table for each
Requirement to guide your assessment. DO NOT just copy the Testing
Procedures.