Seng Chang and Kaying Lor were glad to learn Monday afternoon that their family’s journey through the courts was over. Police took away the couple’s four children on April 30 after employees at Sherman Elementary School noticed marks on the youngsters’ bodies. The marks had been produced by a traditional Asian healing technique commonly called coining. The children were returned to their parents on May 3 but officially remained in state custody. Prosecutors Monday dropped the case against Chang and Lor after medical experts reviewed the case and determined that there was no evidence of child abuse… The family is Hmong, and ethnic group from the hills of Laos. Lor said he and his wife will continue using the coining remedy when their children are sick. The technique involves rubbing ointment into the skin with a coin or spoon. He said he hopes those who investigate abuse allegations have learned a lesson and will listen more carefully to what parents are saying before removing children from their homes. Six other children were taken from a Vietnamese couple in a separate but similar case. Prosecutors dismissed that case last week (Morton, 2002, p. B1).

 

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Goals:
April 29, 2015
10-12 pages (does not include title page or references) 300 points
Discrimination occurs in many different forms in U.S. society. Although individual acts of discrimination are damaging and hurtful, that which has become woven into the fabric of society is insidious and far more destructive. For this assignment select one of the critical issues currently reported in the news and determine if there are any aspects of the issue that reflect institutional discrimination.
The goal of this assignment is to have you examine discrimination beyond the individual expression in areas that have a direct impact on the lives of individuals, families, and groups. Through this assignment it is expected that you will deepen your awareness and understanding of the U.S. society and the differential treatment that some groups of people experience.
The final assignment will focus on the topics listed below: (You are free to request another area of focus for your paper-please discuss with the instructor first).
Instructions

please choose the easy one from these and write about it
• Immigration
• Affirmative Action
• Disability
• Voter identification

• Identify and analyze the issue; discuss the problem and the solution(s) advanced; examine whom the problem and solution affect; identify and discuss the agenda(s), whose agenda it is, who benefits and how;
• Identify and discuss the overt and covert objectives as the issue is brought to the public consciousness;
• Analyze manifestations of the issue in rural and small town communities;
• Apply concepts of institutional discrimination and social and economic justice;
• Describe the role as an individual and as a social worker which you might assume in responding to institutional discrimination and social and economic injustice in areas in which you are involved; recommend specific remedies or ways in which institutional discrimination and social injustice can be eliminated in the context of rural social work practice.
• Include no fewer than 10 outside references in your paper.

 

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1. Suppose a single card is held up and the subject is just guessing when responding as to which shape is on the card. What is the probability that the subject will guess correctly? 2. If a subject is just guessing the shape on a card at random, what proportion (out of 25 cards) would you expect the person to correctly identify? 3. Look again at your answer to Question 2. How would you expect that proportion to change if someone actually does have ESP (assuming that ESP exists)? In other words, would you expect the proportion to be larger or smaller than what you wrote down in response to Question 2? Think carefully about what is going on here. We have two competing hypotheses. It could be that an individual is just guessing when trying to identify the symbol on the card, or, it could be that the individual has psychic abilities (or ESP) and is not just guessing. How can we rule out that a person is just guessing? Think about that as we move forward in this activity. 4. How might we determine whether an observed result is “extreme” enough to suggest someone might truly have ESP? Statisticians do this by employing a p-value. This is the probability of obtaining a sample statistic as extreme or more extreme than the observed sample statistic, if we assume to begin with that our null hypothesis is true. A. In this example, we start with a hypothesis that subjects are just guessing when presented with Zener cards and would do no better than what is expected “just by chance alone.” We would write this hypothesis out as follows: Ho: p = 0.20. We call this the __________________ hypothesis. B. Remember that with hypothesis testing, we always begin with a set of competing hypotheses. This means we must have another hypothesis that subjects do indeed have psychic powers and thus would do better than “just guessing.” In symbols, we would write this hypothesis as: Ha: p > 0.20. We call this the ______________________hypothesis.

 

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MGT 554. Contracts and Procurement

Assignment 5

Writing a Personal Services Contract

Introduction

A contract is simply an agreement that specifies the rights and responsibilities of the signatories. It can be one sentence long or can stretch out for hundreds of pages. There are two primary factors that affect the length of a contract: 1) the size and complexity of the effort that needs to be undertaken; 2) the level of detail that the parties feel compelled to write into the written document.

Clearly, while small, simple efforts can be covered by short agreements, large, complex undertakings will tend to be accompanied by lengthy, complex contracts. For example, a contract to build a nuclear power plant will be a massive document. If nothing else, the sheer quantity of detail that needs to be handled is enormous, and the act of documenting this detail will consume many pages. Beyond this, nuclear power plants have liability issues that must be incorporated into the contract – as Three Mile Island and Chernobyl showed us, they can be dangerous places. Thus the legal portion of the contract can consume hundreds of pages.

Even fairly small efforts can be defined by lengthy contracts if the parties insist that nothing be left to the imagination. For example, one contract might specify that Room 222 be painted Ivory White (# 6201B, Brite Paint mix), following standard professional painting practice, while another contract might define in great detail what painting practice should be pursued (e.g., cover the furniture, remove face plates from switches, remove all hardware from doors, cover the floors with a drop cloth, etc.) The second contract will be much longer than the first.

Assignment

You want to hire a professional editor to help your film scripting group to put together a script for a two-hour documentary on the lives of illegal immigrants in Texas. It is estimated that the editor will be employed by your organization for three months and will be paid $250 per day. For the most part, he/she will be editing work that your colleagues have already written, or are in the process of writing. But it is clear that the editor should be able to write new material when the occasion arises. For the editor to function properly, he/she needs to attend project meetings for the project and be capable of interviewing key people when necessary.

This is all the information you have been given regarding the editor’s potential chores. You are asked to write a professional services contract that both your Vice President and the editor will sign.

1. What items and issues should be included in the contract?
2. Compose a short professional services contract that your company can use on the documentary project

 

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