Discuss whether it is important to conduct a review of the project to ensure that all activities have been completed and delivered in scope.

Discuss whether it is important to conduct a review of the project to ensure that all activities have been completed and delivered in scope. Reviews also help gather lessons learned for future project managers.
Remember that a project is temporary in that it has a defined beginning and end, with a defined scope. It is unique in that it is not a routine operation, but a specific set of operations designed to accomplish a single goal. For example, your involvement in this course can be viewed as a project: it has a definite beginning and end, it has a defined scope (the syllabus), and it is designed to accomplish a single goal (to provide you with an overview of project management).
Your final assignment for this course will be to conduct a project evaluation as part of its closeout. You are to create a PowerPoint presentation of at least 8 slides. In your presentation, you will perform a review of this course (the course represents the project, and the course syllabus represents the project plan and the instructor represents the project manager). Your presentation should apply closeout best practices and should capture lessons learned.
You may use any checklists and templates from your text or find them online. You are free to be creative with this assignment. Be sure to cite your sources (if applicable) using APA. Include your references and in-text citations.
Submitting your assignment in APA format means, at a minimum, you will need the following:
Title slide: Remember the running head. The title should be in all capitals.
Length: 8 slides minimum
Body slides: This begins on the slide following the title slide and must be double-spaced (be careful not to triple- or quadruple-space between paragraphs). The typeface should be 12-pt. Times Roman or 12-pt. Courier in regular black type. Do not use color, bold type, or italics, except as required for APA-level headings and references. The deliverable length of the body of your presentation for this assignment is 8 slides. In-body academic citations to support your decisions and analysis are required. A variety of academic sources is encouraged.
Reference slide: References that align with your in-body academic sources are listed on the final slide of your presentation. The references must be in APA format using appropriate spacing, hanging indent, italics, and uppercase and lowercase usage as appropriate for the type of resource used. Remember, the Reference slide is not a bibliography but a further listing of the abbreviated in-body citations used in the paper. Every referenced item must have a corresponding in-body citation.

How would a court rule on these arguments?

Discussion 5 on Chapter 5 Defamation Proof of Fault

Instructions: Read the case and answer the question at the end

An unusual yet heavy snowstorm had hit Portland, Oregon, in December. It had paralyzed the city for several days. The citizens and the press had criticized the city’s public works department because they failed to clear the snow on the roads. This resulted in slippery roads that led to pedestrians getting injured and cars getting damaged. Businesses also incurred losses because their customers could not travel downtown. The Portland Patriot was especially brute in criticizing the workers of the public works department in their editorials. One of them is as follows:
Here it is the 21st Century and the city’s road crews can’t even handle a simple snowstorm. How many dollars were lost by businesses because their customers couldn’t get downtown? How many cars were damaged and pedestrians injured because of the slippery roads and sidewalks? And how many members of the road crews sat on their duffs, in cafes, drinking coffee and eating donuts, while their plows were parked for long periods on the streets outside, while the rest of us struggled to go on with our lives. Their actions were criminal, causing untold harm to hundreds of people. Supervisors reported all crews were working 16 hours a day. But there is ample evidence that many of these workers simply sat on the sidelines, waiting for the snow and ice to melt. It is time to take action against these incompetent clods; fire the whole bunch.

The city had employed eighty-seven workers to clear the ice and snow off the roads. Seven of them had filed a libel suit against the Portland Patriot for condemning the workers. The workers argued that the following charges are defamatory: their actions were criminal, they drank coffee and ate donuts instead of doing their jobs, and they are incompetent.

The Patriot raised two arguments in its defense of the libel suit. First, it argued that the city workers are public officials and that they will have to show evidence of actual malice to prevail and win the case. Also, the Patriot argued that the group of 87 members is a large group and that individual members of the group cannot prove their identity.

Question : How would a court rule on these arguments?

Discuss the following topics as they relate to your article and the criminological theory .

Essay 2 Assignment
SOCI236
– Issues in Crime

Instructor:
Alexander
Shvarts
Due
Date: March 27, 2022
Total
marks: 20% of final mark
Marks
deducted for lateness: 5% or 1 mark/day

Instructions:

1.
Choose an issue in crime/criminology from one of the
following areas:
(a)
Race, Crime, and Urban Inequality
(b)
Drug Dealers
(c)
Thieves
(d)
White-Collar Crime
(e)
Delinquency and Parental Controls
(f)
Urban Black Violence
(g)
State-Organized Crime
(h)
Black Violence in Chicago
(i)
Fraternities and Rape on Campus
(j)
Women who commit serious violent crimes

2.
Based on the issue in crime which you have chosen
you will be provided with an article from a sociological or criminological
journal on your topic.

3.
Relate your article to one of the following
criminological theories that were covered in class and in your text:
(a)
Social Disorganization theories
(b)
Strain and Subcultural theories
(c)
Social Learning (Differential Association),
Neutralization, and Social Control theories
(d)
Conflict and Marxist theories
(e)
Feminist theories

4.
Discuss the following topics as they relate to your
article and the criminological theory that you have chosen:
(a)
Basic Idea and Major Theorists
(b)
The Role of Law, the Definition of Crime, and the
Image of the Criminal
(c)
Causal Logic
(d)
Criminal Justice System Implications, including
Criminal Justice Policy and Correctional Ideology and Techniques of Crime
Control

5.
Conclude by providing an evaluation/criticism of the
article that you have chosen. The
criticism can come from a different criminological theory than the one that you
have chosen, which looks at your issue of crime in a different light. For example, Strain theories of crime are
criticized by Marxist and conflict theories for only focussing on lower-class
crime because strain theory provides little analysis of how crime is
constructed by the powerful and it is based on official statistics.

6.
Adequate citations, endnotes, and references must be
provided in order to avoid PLAGIARISM.
In class, we will go over the proper format that you should use for
references.

7.
The essay should be minimum 1000 words in length (4
pages), double-spaced, typed.

Explain how many dollars were lost by businesses because their customers couldn’t get downtown?

Discussion 5 on Chapter 5 Defamation Proof of Fault

Instructions: Read the case and answer the question at the end

An unusual yet heavy snowstorm had hit Portland, Oregon, in December. It had paralyzed the city for several days. The citizens and the press had criticized the city’s public works department because they failed to clear the snow on the roads. This resulted in slippery roads that led to pedestrians getting injured and cars getting damaged. Businesses also incurred losses because their customers could not travel downtown. The Portland Patriot was especially brute in criticizing the workers of the public works department in their editorials. One of them is as follows:
Here it is the 21st Century and the city’s road crews can’t even handle a simple snowstorm. How many dollars were lost by businesses because their customers couldn’t get downtown? How many cars were damaged and pedestrians injured because of the slippery roads and sidewalks? And how many members of the road crews sat on their duffs, in cafes, drinking coffee and eating donuts, while their plows were parked for long periods on the streets outside, while the rest of us struggled to go on with our lives. Their actions were criminal, causing untold harm to hundreds of people. Supervisors reported all crews were working 16 hours a day. But there is ample evidence that many of these workers simply sat on the sidelines, waiting for the snow and ice to melt. It is time to take action against these incompetent clods; fire the whole bunch.

The city had employed eighty-seven workers to clear the ice and snow off the roads. Seven of them had filed a libel suit against the Portland Patriot for condemning the workers. The workers argued that the following charges are defamatory: their actions were criminal, they drank coffee and ate donuts instead of doing their jobs, and they are incompetent.

The Patriot raised two arguments in its defense of the libel suit. First, it argued that the city workers are public officials and that they will have to show evidence of actual malice to prevail and win the case. Also, the Patriot argued that the group of 87 members is a large group and that individual members of the group cannot prove their identity.

Question : How would a court rule on these arguments?