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writing journal entry
The South Side: A Portrait of Chicago and American Segregation by Natalie Y. Moore
In the first chapter of South Side, Moore writes about her childhood in the middle-class black neighborhood, Chatham. “I certainly never saw any non-blacks living in Chatham. But growing up in segregation felt like air and water – a constant, but something I never pondered until a small incident upended my detachment.” (page 17). She then describes boarding the L train from downtown when she was 14 years old in 1990, when she observed a large group of whites staying on and packing the train past 22nd street, the South Side of town. Then on 35th street, the white riders emptied en masse at the White Sox baseball stadium.
Why do you think she begins the book this way? How does it influence the development of the argument she is building? Can you think of any moments in your own childhood, or life, when you first became keenly aware of racial or class distinctions?

Statue of Liberty Link
https://www.nps.gov/stli/learn/historyculture/index.htm

This week we are studying intent and interpretation, specifically focusing on cultural works. For this assignment, select either the Statue of Liberty, the Crazy Horse Memorial, or the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial. Research the intention of the creator of the monument you selected and how the monument is perceived today. Review the articles related to each monument in the Resources section.

Your submission should be a Word document, one to two pages in length, with 12-point Times New Roman font, double spacing, and one-inch margins. Any sources should be cited according to APA style. Consult the Shapiro Library APA Style Guide for more information on citations.

Respond to the questions below in a few paragraphs. Specifically, you must address the following rubric criteria:
Describe the monument selected.
Explain the original intentions behind the monument selected and how later interpretations changed the meaning and cultural understandings.
Reflect on what you learned in the Resources section articles and compare your own interpretation or understanding of the monument selected with the intent of authors whose interpretations you chose to evaluate.

Name: Jose Trejo
Central State University
Course: Research Methods (CRJ-2410-7GW)
Professor: Dr. Darrick Brake

This assignment is based on Chapter 4 of this textbook:
Research Methods for Criminal Justice and Criminology, 8th Edition
ISBN: 9781337517119
By: Michael G. Maxfield

I have attached the PowerPoint and notes given to us by the professor.

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Instructions:

Kansas City Gun Experiment

https://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles/kang.pdf

This document produced by the National Institute of Justice is a research brief of the Kansas City Gun Experiment introduced Chapter #4 in the section labeled External Validity.

Assignment:
For this assignment, I want everyone to prepare a short 1 page written document that utilizes some of the major concepts from Chapter #4, such as: What might be the threats to internal validity, what were the units of analysis, what kind of construct validity was present, and whether the Kansas City Gun Experiment was a cross-sectional study or a longitudinal study.

Events in the United States such as the riots in Charlottesville, Virginia, the battle over whether to allow immigrants and refugees to enter and remain in our country, the investigation into alleged Russian election collusion, the impeachment trial, the racial implications of the deaths of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor and, most recently and perhaps most importantly, the insurrection attempt at the Capitol on January 6th, have revealed deep divisions among everyday citizens. As these social, economic and ideological differences continue to manifest themselves with increasing incidents of violence and unrest, it begs the question of whether a shared commitment to the ideals of a constitutional democracy still exists in the United States.
Please discuss, using the above mentioned events and other recent events you believe to relevant, the following question:
How do social and demographic factors such as race, ethnicity, religion, gender, family structures, culture, education and age affect our definition and the expectations of a democracy? How do you, personally, define democracy?
Post two (2) questions related to the subject matter contained in the article. Questions may include, but are not limited to, matters of discrimination, religious freedom, gay rights and constitutional rights and privileges. Questions should be clearly stated and thought provoking, utilizing the text and concepts presented as their basis.

Question 1 (10 points)
Compare and contrast mutations and polymorphisms. Be specific and provide examples.
NOTE: All answers must be detailed and fully address the questions asked, and must incorporate and reference, at minimum, the course materials. Brief and/or insufficient answers that do not reflect rigorous academic effort and college-level critical thought on the part of the student will receive little to no credit.

Question 2 (10 points)
Explain the various ways that each of these can occur within a DNA sequence:
1. substitution
2. deletion
3. insertion

Question 3
A female fruit fly who was not exposed to a mutagen, but whose father was exposed, mated with another non-exposed male (wild-type). All of their progeny seem normal, but there are twice as many female offspring compared to males.
1. Develop a testable hypothesis to explain these results.
2. How could you test your hypothesis? Be specific.

Question 4 (10 points)
Suppose you want to figure out what genes are involved in the production of proline (Pro) in a certain bacteria.
(1) How would you go about designing a mutant screen to do so?
(2) Suppose your screen identified 5 mutants that barely grew without being given Pro in the medium. How would you go about determining the number of different genes these mutants represent?

Question 5 (10 points)
Discuss the difference between the terms gene, transcription unit, locus and allele. Discuss within the context of what is presented in the course materials, and be specific.

Question 6
A cross between a wild-type fruit fly strain and various true-breeding mutant strains (all at a single locus) for bristle mutations resulted in the following phenotypes:
Mutant Bristle Phenotype
1 0.20 shorter
2 0.30 longer
3 0.75 shorter
4 bent and damaged, non-functional
5 no bristles
Using Muller’s Morphs classification, Mutant 1 could be considered what type of “morph?”
Question 6 options:
Gain-of-function morph
Hypomorph
Neomorph
Antimorph
Amorph
Question 7 (10 points)
If a certain species has more chromosomes than another species, does that mean it has
(1) more DNA? Explain.
(2) more genes? Explain.
Question 8 (10 points)
If an organism has a diploid chromosome number of 8 (2n = 8), how many chromosomes will it have in its cell after G2 phase?
Question 8 options:
four
eight
sixteen
thirty-two
Question 9 (10 points)
(1) In people, the X chromosome is bigger than the Y chromosome. Does that mean females have more DNA than males? Explain.
(2) What would happen if the SRY gene was moved to chromsome 2, adjacent to the LCT gene? Would SRY still be able to carry out is function? Why or why not? If no, what would be the consequences? Be specific.

Question 10 (10 points)
Explain the difference between DNA, chromatin, and chromosomes, as presented in the content of this course.

All answers must be detailed and fully address the questions asked, and must incorporate and reference, at minimum, the course materials. Brief and/or insufficient answers that do not reflect rigorous academic effort and college-level critical thought on the part of the student will receive little to no credit.

Choose one of the following topics:
high school sports or a particular high school sport
college or a particular aspect of college
art or a particular type or work of art
music or a particular type of music or band/artist
pay or the pay/salary or work conditions for a particular job
nature or a particular aspect of nature
technology or a particular type or aspect of technology
entertainment or a particular aspect of entertainment
drugs or a particular type or aspect of drugs
A topic is a broad, sometimes abstract subject that people or communities discuss or debate. An issue, on the other hand, is a more specific point of concern, tension, or disagreement within the larger topic.
In this activity, you will begin by narrowing from larger topics to select several issues that (1) are important to you or others in your community and that (2) you want to “invite” others to help you understand and address.
Assignment:
complete the following three objectives:
1. Write down 2-3 broad topics that interest you. Look for subjects in your life that you have always wanted to explore in more detail, or ideas that you are passionate about and want to spend more time investigating.
For example, you might think about how you like to play video games. From this broad interest, you might write down the following topics:
Video game Development
Video Game Design
Video Games and Education
2. Select 2-3 issues that are points of disagreement or debate within one of the topics you have chosen. Think about controversies and ways that you have heard different groups disagree or conflict with one another. Write down these 2-3 issues as questions.
For example, within the topic of “video game development,” you might write down specific controversies that you have read about, such as:
Should video game developers be allowed to use “loot boxes” and other pay-for-play downloadable content?
Should game companies be regulated to avoid “crunch time” practices that negatively affect employee health and morale?
What regulations should be placed on reviewers to avoid inflated reviews of “broken” games that earn big money in pre-release sales?
3. Finally, select one issue that is most interesting to you and answer the following questions about it:
Why are you interested in the issue and the general topic? What are your existing experiences around it?
What is the specific issue you think you might address? Who is concerned about it?
What are the most important questions surrounding the issue?
Why does this issue matter?
Please layout the outline exactly how its shown

PROMPT: In chapter four, “Consciousness,” you read about the various levels of consciousness, including altered states of consciousness, such as drug use. For this discussion post, I would like for you discuss the various types of psychoactive drugs. Please answer the following questions:

What are the three categories the textbook divides psychoactive drugs into? Name at least two drugs from each category. Define physical dependence and psychological dependence and describe the difference between the two. Please use your textbook as a reference and BE SURE to site your source in the text

AND at the end of your post. It’s okay to get information from other places to do an assignment as long as you rearrange the words in our own way (this is called paraphrasing) AND you site it in text (Author Last, year of publication) and as a reference at the end of your post. Do not use exact wording copied from your source (textbook, scholarly articles, etc.), you MUST say it in your own words.

INSTRUCTIONS:

Your original post responding to the prompt should be no less than 200 words, should use in-text citations, cite your references at the end, use proper grammar and spelling, and should answer the prompt correctly. At least ONE source is required for the original post. In addition, you are to also respond in no less than 50 words to at least TWO of your fellow classmate’s posts.

Introduction:
The Prospective Payment System of CMS consists of thirteen schedules that allow the calculation of payment for a patient encounter. The DRG or price-based system covers inpatient charges from one of these schedules.
Tasks:
Describe the schedules of CMS.
Provide an example of a charge for each schedule.
Describe the case mix concept that alters payment rates.
Describe the diagnosis related group payment system.
Submission Details:
To support your work, use your course and textbook readings and also use the South University Online Library. As in all assignments, cite your sources in your work and provide references for the citations in APA format.
Your initial posting should be addressed in 150–300 words

Read the assigned reading from the chapter. Then choose ONE of the questions below to answer. Answer the question you chose in a response that is a minimum of 1-2 paragraphs.
Be sure to explain your answers and give reasons for your views. You should cite the textbook and use brief quotations and summaries from the textbook in your response. Do NOT use any other sources besides the textbook.
If you are a theist, answer question one (1) on page 72. If you are an agnostic or atheist, answer question two (2) on page 72.
What are the relevant similarities and differences between Paley’s watch and the universe? Is the watch analogy a good one? Why or Why not?
What is Aquinas’ s first-cause argument? Does it prove the existence of the traditional God of theism? Why or why not?
Explain an objection to Anselm’s Ontological Argument (either Kant or Gaunilo).

D6 discusses why learning organizations must document results and provided guiding principles for program evaluation and advice on what to measure, how to collect and analyze the information, and, especially important, how to market the results. Choose an organization you believe to be a learning organization, provide a justification as to why the organization is a learning organization and how it collects and analyzes the information or assessment information on why the training and/or learning was successful.