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Take at least 200 words to reflect on the following:
Why was Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone a bestseller (remember that all books we’re reading reached #1 on The New York Times bestseller list)?
What does it tell us about society that Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone was a bestseller?
How do you think Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone influenced society? (And what is your evidence that it had this influence?)
How does reading this seventh book challenge, change, or add to your understanding of what a bestselling novel is?
Feel free to add your personal responses to the novel as well.
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone 1997
Author: Rowling, J.K. / GrandPre, Mary
ISBN-13: 978-0-590-35342-7
ISBN-10: 0-590-35342-X
Edition/Copyright: 1997
Publisher: Scholastic, Inc.

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1. Imagine that the Chancellor of HCC is trying to decide whether to use the letter grade system or a pass-fail system. He has asked students, teachers, and parents to write him brief arguments about why HCC should prefer one grade system or the other. Your task, then, is to write an argument that explains your answer to this question.

2. You should always include some form of opposition/response for your basic arguments from now on, so make sure that you have one (the form is up to you).

3. Research is forbidden; this is about your ideas and your explanations. (If you included research in the original Diagnostic Exercise, you must remove it for this version.

Breakfast of Champions is written in a distinctive style. How does this style contribute to the book’s appeal to the reader? (This question is asking, essentially, how does the style help make it sell/make it fun to read?)

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For this signature assignment, you will prepare a 10-12-page research paper. The goal of this assignment is to demonstrate your understanding of a theoretically informed planned change process in work with a disenfranchised individual or family.
To begin work on this assignment, select a disorder or issue of interest to you in work with adults, families, or older adults. You may use a disorder you’ve used for previous assignments in this or other Course, or you may choose another issue you are interested in exploring.
Next, select a population that is disenfranchised or a minority group. Examples include gay men, Black women, or persons with a disability.
Examples of disorders and populations that might serve as the focus of this paper, include but are not limited to: Black women with depression, People living in poverty with substance abuse issues, and so on.
Briefly describe at least three theories traditionally utilized to intervene with individuals or families with the focus disorder in the specific population you’ve chosen.
Choose the theory that you see has the most evidence supporting its use with this population.
Review Literature: In approximately one paragraph each, review at least five scholarly sources that discuss the use of this theory with your selected population. Briefly summarize each source, being certain to address both knowledge and skills.
Synthesize Knowledge: Assess what you have learned about the use of this theory to treat your identified disorder in your particular population. What is the overall state of knowledge in this area?
Utilize Theory: Apply what you have learned about this theory to the planned change process. How would you use what you know about this theory to engage, assess, intervene, and evaluate in your work with a client? Use examples.
Expand on your application of this specific theory to the process of engagement. Draw on materials from this and previous courses to discuss the theoretical precepts, knowledge, and strategies that you would use to engage a client in this specific population.
Conclude: Summarize your understanding of the role of theory in social work practice with individuals and families. Discuss the planned change process and describe your understanding of how this process applies to work with individuals and families. Finally, discuss what you see as the most important knowledge and skills you learned in this class.
Support your assignment with at least five scholarly resources. In addition to these specified resources, other appropriate scholarly resources, including seminal articles, may be included.

Please make sure that sources are 2013- present
All sources have to be scholarly sources
Any statistacal information should be from a scholarly source

Module 5 Assignment
Unit Plan* – Please detail out your scope and sequence of presentation of your materials. Some of you will just be doing a one-session program, so this is not as applicable where others are executing over a 6-12 week period. Typically unit plans are one page in length, think about your Course Guide as a unit plan.

* If you do not have a traditional education component to your health program, please write a protocol for events that need to happen for your program. For example, if you are working on policy changes at the worksite then there are certain hoops to jump through to make that happen.
Lesson Plan Sample** – please submit either your single session lesson, that outlines a timeline, content material, activities, and equipment needed. If you have a multi-session program, you only need to turn in one day/session.

**If you do not have a traditional health education strategy then please detail out the strategies you plan to use, referring to chapter 8 in the book.
Supporting Materials – Please also include any supporting materials such as PPT, video links, text messaging prompts, or anything that would be applicable to your programming.

The opening case in Chapter 12, “Big Data and the Internet of Things Drive Precision Agriculture,” (attached) demonstrates how the effective use of data analytics can help employees and managers at all levels, in many different industries, make better decisions. Using Purdue’s University College of Agriculture as an example, explain how you think this technology could help a company with which you are familiar.
Your journal entry must be at least 200 words in length. No references or citations are necessary.

SOCIAL WELFARE PROBLEM POLICY AND ALTERNATIVES
Overview
For this assignment, you will continue building on the work you have done for the previous two assignments by exploring alternatives and changes to social welfare policy that could address gaps and flaws in existing policy.
As part of your analysis, you will need to incorporate at least seven peer-review journal articles and any other scholarly sources to support your points, including one reference from the Congressional Research Service’s Search CRS Reports. Only one peer-reviewed article may be older than five years.
Write a five-page paper in which you explore changes and alternatives to address gaps and flaws in a current social welfare policy. In addition to our course readings, you will need to review the literature on the social issues or problem you select in order to respond to some of the requirements below. Include the following in your submission:
Introduction
Provide an introduction that succinctly describes the issue or problem, the current federal social welfare policy designed to address it, and the gaps or flaws that impact its effectiveness.
Body of Paper
Describe possible changes to the federal policy that would address known gaps, flaws, or shortcomings.
Describe alternative policies that have been proposed to address shortcomings or flaws with the current policy.
Compare and contrast the similarities and differences between the current policy and an alternative proposal, including any changes in who may benefit and the effects on families.
Describe the relationship between policy and best practices for human service professionals.
Conclusion
Provide a succinct conclusion that highlights the key points of your discussion.
Additional Requirements
References: Include at least seven peer-review journal articles. Only one peer-reviewed article may be older than five years. Include one reference from the Congressional Research Service.
Length of paper: Approximately five pages, not including cover and references.
Communication: Communicate in a manner that is scholarly, professional, and respectful of the diversity, dignity, and integrity of others, consistent with expectations for members of the human services profession. Written communication should be free of errors that detract from the overall message.
APA style and format: Use appropriate APA style and formatting for citations and references. Refer to Academic Writer or Evidence and APA in the Capella Writing Center.

Is The Lovely Bones intended as literature, entertainment, or something else—and what do you base this judgment on?
Take at least 200 words to explore these questions

As we are entering a never-ending change within the structure and dynamics of transportation, we need to approach this topic with an ever-greater emphasis on transport infrastructure elements within our urban and metropolitan plans; an up-to-date view is required in order to optimize transport concepts in any given strategic exercise. How does the different modes of transportation benefit and hurt the economy?
Given limited transportation investment dollars, how do we really know the extent to which mode of transportation will benefit the economy?

Book Title The Definitive Guide to Transportation: Principles, Strategies, and Decisions for the Effective Flow of Goods and Services
Author / Editor CSCMP, Thomas J. Goldsby, Deepak Iyengar, Shashank Rao
Publication Date 2014

3. The Economics of Transportation
Transportation economics occupies its own branch of the economics discipline. Economics is concerned with determining the best means of allocating scarce resources to achieve the greatest overall benefit. Governments use economics to determine projects in which they should invest, such as those of transportation infrastructure (for roadways, bridges, ports, locks and dams, among others). Businesses also must use economic principles to make the most informed and educated decisions in resource allocation. On matters of transportation, these decisions include determining how many facilities in which to operate for serving customers (distribution network design), whether to invest in private fleet operations or buy services from carriers in the marketplace, and which modes to use for inbound and outbound shipping, just to name a few.
This chapter focuses on the economics of transportation operations for carriers, firms that provide transportation services. With an understanding of the costs incurred by carriers, we examine the implications of pricing services for customers. Under efficient market conditions, carriers should earn sufficient revenues to cover costs, yet competition in the market will prevent carriers from earning exorbitant or excessive rents. This example is initiated by reviewing the different ways to view costs that carriers face in their operations.
Accounting Costs and Economic Costs
One way to distinguish the costs of transportation operations is to consider accounting costs and economics costs. Accounting costs involve actual outlays in money and are recorded in the financial statements of a company. Economic costs, on the other hand, reflect the revenue that is lost in pursuing a different course of action. Consider, for instance, that a carrier elects to invest in information technology rather than a new truck terminal. The investment in the information technology represents an accounting cost. Economic cost is found in the incremental revenues that the company misses by not investing in the expanded capacity provided by a truck terminal. Economic costs are Figure 3-1 illustrates typical behavior for fixed, variable, and total costs in the case of distance. Note that fixed cost is a flat line that does not change with distance. Variable cost, however, rises with distance. The total cost curve, then, is the sum of fixed cost and variable cost, and increases at the same rate as variable cost. Discussions of variable costs lead to an understanding of marginal cost. Marginal cost refers to the additional cost incurred with an incremental increase in an activity.
Figure 3-1, marginal costs are reflected in the slope of the total cost curve (and variable cost curve, which is the same). Close examination of the total cost curve suggests that the slope of the curve decreases somewhat as distance increases. This decrease in marginal cost suggests that an economy of scale is present. An economy of scale is found when, the further one pursues an activity, the less each additional unit costs than the one before it. In our example with distance as the focus, each additional mile costs less than the one before it. This is called the tapering principle. Economy of scale is also found with volume, as suggested by our discussion of how variable costs can increase.
Figure 3-1. In the case of distance, at some point, a shipment can reach limits beyond which it can no longer support a shipment, such as when a truck runs out of road in a transoceanic shipment. The truck must hand off the load to a ship or airplane. This is called geographic discontinuity. Therefore, the total cost curve reflects the cost of the movement by truck, and then when the truck reaches its terminal point, the total cost curve takes a jump to a higher level before reflecting the marginal cost of the second mode of transportation employed in the shipment (either air or ship). Of course, when the airplane or ship hands off the shipment to another mode for final delivery to the customer, we would see another jump.
Similarly, sudden increases occur in the total cost curve for shipment volume. With increasing volume, a shipment exceeds the capacity of a vehicle to carry the load at some point. This is true of the weight capacity and the space capacity of a vehicle. When a vehicle reaches its maximum weight, it is said to have “weighed out.” When a vehicle reaches its spatial capacity, it is said to have “cubed out.” To ship volumes in excess of a vehicle’s weight or a container’s weight or cubic capacity, we must enlist another vehicle (or container). The enlistment of the second vehicle would result in a jump in the total cost curve, reflecting the fixed-cost investment in the second vehicle (or container).
Chapter 2, “A Survey of Transportation Modes”). The measurement used to reflect the efficiency of a carrier’s business is operating ratio (OR). The calculation of OR follows:
Operating ratio = [(Operating costs) / (Operating revenues)] × 100
The lower the OR, the more money a carrier has available to invest back into the business. The OR serves as a valuable measurement of a carrier’s financial health. Although it is less meaningful when comparing carriers in different modes, the OR can be useful in assessing the operational efficiencies of carriers competing in the same mode. Table 3-1 lists the OR of several carriers competing in the less-than-truckload (LTL) market in the United States. The average OR of 97.0 percent for 2013 indicates that the carrier margins in this sector are quite thin. Again, the lower the OR value, the more funds a carrier has to reinvest in the business.
Chapter 2 the difference in speed for a barge traveling downstream with the river current, as opposed to upstream against the current (12 miles per hour versus 5 miles per hour). The towboat supporting the barge would consume more fuel heading upstream than downstream. Also, consider the customer that requires service provisions such as special handling of freight or unique communications and support. These simple examples underscore the importance of understanding a customer’s specific demands and the costs incurred to meet those demands, or the CTS.
One method that many organizations have applied over the years to ascertain the cost to serve a distinct customer is activity-based costing (ABC). Devised in the early 1980s, ABC became common among infrastructures for assigning overhead costs to products and customers. Transportation and logistics companies have employed ABC as a way to understand the relationship between customer demands and resource consumption. As its name implies, the method requires a company to track its activities. This is accomplished with mapping processes, such as loading and transporting freight, and administrative processes, such as communicating with the customer and issuing the invoices. After the processes are mapped, they are linked to the resources consumed and costs incurred in performing the processes. This requires examining the company’s financial records and expenses, including general ledger activity, statements of cash flow, and income statement. Today’s CTS systems can ease this step. Out of this, a cost per activity is devised for each of the various activities the company performs in serving costs. The final step, then, is to integrate the activity log in the analysis. This illustrates how frequently the service provider performs each activity for a customer over the allotted time period (usually the previous 12 months). The company sums the activity costs for each customer to determine the CTS. Figures 3-2 and 3-3 illustrate the logic employed.
1 Recall that truckload carriers place limits only on the maximum weight of the load and charge the same price regardless of the volume. LTL carriers, on the other www.nmfta.org) is the party responsible for maintaining the commodity classifications. The NMFTA maintains the National Motor Freight Classification (NMFC), which codifies products in 18 different classes, ranging from 50 to 500. Products rated at Class 50 enjoy the lowest rates per hundredweight, as a reflection of their ease in “transportability.” They are likely to be dense, easily stowed and handled, sturdy, and relatively free of hazard and liability. Materials such as bricks or packaged sand shipped on pallets are examples of Class 50 freight. At the opposite extreme, products rated as Class 500 are low in density, difficult to stow and handle, fragile, extremely valuable, and/or laden with hazard or liability. Gold and Ping-Pong balls are examples of Class 500 freight. Gold is extremely valuable, earning the high rating, and Ping-Pong balls are extremely light. Both products would receive a higher price (as expressed in $/cwt) than items with lower classifications.
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Carriers might also charge a fee for diverting a shipment from its original destination in favor of another location. Diversion or reconsignment applies when a shipper and carrier have agreed on the movement, but the shipper issues a change in destination, perhaps when the shipment is already in transit. Such an arrangement is most likely to occur in the road transport mode, which can more easily accommodate a change in the destination for a shipment. This might be the case for a shipment that was originally planned for one distribution center in a company’s logistics network but that must be diverted to another facility deemed to be in a shortage situation. The carrier’s reconsignment fee ensures that it is compensated for the inconvenience of repositioning its equipment and driver to accommodate the dynamic routing of the shipment.
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One reason for the driver shortage is the frustration of drivers who are forced to wait at pickup and drop-off locations. The tradition in driver wages is to pay the driver for distance traveled, but not for waiting. Under this scenario, drivers experience considerable aggravation, and many choose to leave the industry. A study conducted among truckload carriers in the late 1990s found that the average longhaul truck driver wasted 33.5 hours each week waiting to load and unload freight!4 Adjustments in hours-of-service (HOS) that challenge drivers’ available drive time place an additional premium on how the driver’s time is spent. To combat the problem, carriers have become quite aggressive in charging detention fees and passing along much of the proceeds to the drivers. Shippers that refuse to pay the detention fees then run the risk of being declined service in the future. Furthermore, shippers that gain a reputation of detaining drivers and not paying detention fees gain a reputation in the industry as being uncooperative. The term demurrage applies to the fee that charter ship owners and rail carriers charge customers for extended use of vehicles and containers in their respective modes. Demurrage is usually charged on a per diem (daily) basis instead of being levied hourly, as for trucking.
Motor carriers sometimes enter into agreements that allow shippers several days to load or unload a trailer. Drop trailer service refers to a provision of leaving trailers with a shipper or receiver for an extended time to allow more loading or unloading at times that are convenient for the customer. Carriers charge a daily fee for such provisions. The provision of dropping trailers also allows optimal utilization of the driver’s time.
Surcharges refer to any additional fee applied to a shipment. Fuel surcharges are among the most common. When fuel prices prove volatile, carriers incorporate a surcharge to protect themselves against the risk of rising energy costs. Carriers in the United States typically reference the U.S. Department of Energy fuel price index as an objective resource. When fuel prices exceed an agreed-upon standard, the surcharge kicks in. Surcharges might also come into play when carriers must pay tolls to access roads or rights of ways. Motor carriers often apply surcharges to deliveries in the busy downtown district of cities, where deliveries are likely to take longer.
1. All carriers employ a minimum charge for shipments, even for small volumes and short-distance moves, to cover the accounting costs and opportunity costs of the move.
2. Chapter 5, “An Overview of Transportation Management,” has more on consolidation strategies.
3. “Toot-Toot. Germany Wants More Truckers,” Bloomberg Businessweek (2 September 2013): 20–21.
4. Truckload Carrier Association, Dry Van Drivers Survey, June 1999.

Essay #2 Instructions for SOSC 3040
Essay #2 is worth 40% of your final mark in this course.
Please submit your assignment on eClass by August 12, 2022 at 2:30 p.m.
The assignment should be approximately 3500 – 4000 words in length including footnotes/citations.
Please use Times New Roman, 12 point font. Please double space your work.
Please find below the list of paper topics. Please choose one topic to write on.
1. When should corporations cease operations during a conflict? When a corporation such as Starbucks closes operations in a country is that simply a public relations issue? Why or why not? Please reference class discussions.

2. Has the amendment to Section 122 of the CBCA effectively codified BCE? Why or why not? Please explain using reference to course materials and class discussions.

3. The decision in Nevsun Resources has allowed for claimants from other jurisdictions outside Canada to have their claims heard in a Canadian court in regard to suing Canadian corporations. Is this an advancement for Canadian corporate law or will this open the floodgates and allow too many lawsuits? Please explain using reference to course materials and class discussions.

4. What case do you think best exemplifies the current state of Canadian corporate law: Peoples, BCE, Chevron, or Nevsun Resources? Please explain using reference to course materials and class discussions.

5. What are the best ways to fight corporate crime? Is it through tougher jail sentences, increased monetary penalties, or another method? Please explain using reference to course materials and class discussions.