...Eng 131: Short assignment 1.1: Description and Reflective Memo W-462-C, those are the words imprinted on the door outside my dorm room where I currently reside in for my freshman year of college. The door is made of very sturdy wood causing it to be heavy. At waist level of the door there is a keyhole in the doorknob and as I slide my key in I notice the several scratches on it caused by the countless of times when I accidentally miss the keyhole. As I slowly open the door, one first notices the barren cement walls that have been painted white. The carpeted floor has a grey checked design that fills the floor around the entire room. To the right there is a full length mirror carefully stucked to the wall with 3M tape. With that being the main reason why every time I look at it, the uncertainty of it falling to the floor overcomes over me. Below lies a shoe rack containing shoes made for every casual to formal occasion, from orange rubber slippers to the shiniest gold glittered ballet flats that blind you with one look. I turn to my left and I see a spectrum of rainbow colored clothes hanging from uniform black hangers bursting out of the closet. They are arranged so neatly that suffice to say any mum would be proud. Below them are two white and black laundry baskets for the easy sorting of light and dark colored clothes. As I approach the bed across the room, the smell of freshly laundered clothes hits me. I easily identify the source as the two white crisp shirts...
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...20 Self-Reflection As they are intervening in complex human systems, capacity-development practitioners need to be flexible, adaptable and willing to learn from what they do. An important source of learning in real time is the processes and results of monitoring and evaluation (M&E). Bruce Britton explains M&E activities as they are commonly pursued and explores creative ways in which practitioners can use them for personal learning and selfreflection. He also provides suggestions on how this can be done under non-conducive organizational conditions. Monitoring and Evaluation for Personal Learning Bruce Britton By three methods we may learn wisdom: first, by reflection, which is noblest; second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest. (Confucius) Introduction Capacity development practitioners collaborate in efforts to improve the capabilities of complex human systems that operate and connect at different levels. First and foremost, capacity development is a process based on the assumption that better understanding and knowledge will bring about change. Also, the planning for capacity development interventions typically rely on variations of the Logical Framework Approach (LFA), which encourage careful thinking about expected outcomes and impacts. By its very nature LFA assumes that intended results of an initiative can be established in advance because the path that a capacity development process will take can be adequately...
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...Critically discuss the importance of reflection in the practice of management Student ID:20583416 Course: The reflective manager (MD4046) Lecturer: Dr. Elias Hadjielias Fall 2012 Assignment no. 1 Table of Contents Introduction Page 1.1 General Introduction to Reflection 3 1.2 Objectives and Purpose of the essay 3 Main Body 1.3-1.6 Review of Literature 3-4 1.7 Personal opinion of the writer 4 1.8 A practical example of Reflection in a certain case 4 1.9 Recommendations from the writer 5 Conclusion 2.0 Summary pg.3 5 2.1 References ...
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...end of the simulation. The Case of Fair Warning Step 1: Be Attentive What is the issue? Screen 4 Your notes: Step 2 Be Intelligent Who are the stakeholders? Screen 6 Your notes: Step 3a: Be Reasonable Rights/Responsibility Lens -Identify duties Which option best fulfills the requirements of this lens? Screens 8-10 Your notes: Step 3b: Be Reasonable Results Lens -Determine impact on stakeholders -Determine values of stakeholders -Determine criteria for happiness Which option best fulfills the requirements of this lens? Screens 12-17 Your notes: Step 3: Be Responsible Which option that best reflects your core values in this situation? Screen 19 Your notes: Step 4: Be Reflective Write a memo that explains your choice and modifies the decision in a way that reflects your core values and your notion of the best solution to the problem. Screen 20 Your notes: The Case of Stringent Standards Step 1: Be Attentive What is the issue? Screen 25 Your notes: Step 2 Be Intelligent Who are the stakeholders? Screen 27 Your notes: Step 3a: Be Reasonable Relationship Lens -Identify basic rights -Choose process for basic liberties Which option best fulfills the requirements...
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...University of Phoenix Material EthicsGame Simulation Worksheet Student Name: _________________________ Facilitator: _________________________ Complete the interactive Ethics Game simulation, located on the course page on the University of Phoenix Student Web site for Week Three. You will be able to go through the simulation only one time, so please use this worksheet to take notes. The simulation will use the following decision model with the indicated critical decision points. You will want to take notes about your decisions and/or make a copy of the screen when you complete the work to assure that you have the information needed to write your reflection at the end of the simulation. |The Case of Fair Warning | |Step 1: |What is the issue? |Screen | |Be Attentive | |4 | | |Your notes: | | | | | | | | ...
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...University of Phoenix Material Ethics Game Simulation Worksheet Student Name: ________________ Facilitator: ______________ Complete the interactive Ethics Game Simulation, located on the student website. You will only be able to go through the simulation once, so please use this worksheet to take notes. The simulation will use the following decision model with the indicated critical decision points. Take notes about your decisions or make a copy of the screen when you complete the work to assure that you have the information needed to write your reflection at the end of the simulation. |The Case of the Troubled Teen | |Step 1: |What is the issue? |Screen | |Be Attentive | |4 | | |Your notes: | | | | | | | | | | |Step 2 ...
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...Reflective Journal 1 Professor Ogden Reflective Journal 1 While in English 115 my number one goal is to average an ninety or better. I also want to polish my grammar so that I am able to articulate to others in today’s corporate world. I want to be able to send out letters and memo with confidence that my message will be heard professionally. This course is going to be the foundation for my university career, professional career, and personal life. With this course I will be able to submit my best work with the knowledge that I’ll acquire from this class. From writing papers, to research, and even helping my friends and family with paper work they may be confused on due to our current culture and how unclear some things maybe. I am setting realistic goals within my coursed to ensure that I am retaining the information I am getting from my professor. Practicing different styles of writing will helping me to view different opinions and keep an open mind. I want to ensure that I am setting realistic goals when it comes to writing my papers so that I do not over exert myself and miss my opportunity express my thought. Sometimes when writing and thinking I tend to think faster than I type. While writing my mind moves faster than my hands. I tend to jump over thoughts or leave details out due to me trying to get it all out on paper. A common mistake that I tend to make is writing how I would speak to my peers. Whereas there are a lot of avenues that this grammar/broke...
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...POLS 432 Dr. Robert Wood Xu Zhao 0886325 Reflective Essay During 16 weeks, I had a lot of fun in this POLS 432 class. I chose this course because it was major required. As an international student, I felt a little scared at the beginning of the semester since I know nothing about the American policy and I don’t have any friends in this class. It took me a while to adapt into this class style. First, we started from Shambaugh/Weinstein book, and the West Wing episodes. Shambaugh/Weinstein book is about introduction of the Art of policymaking process. From the web book description, it says Author Paul J. Weinstein Jr., who was Chief of Staff of the White House Domestic Policy Council during Clinton's administration; he brought a unique and valuable insider's view to the book. This book also provides some real life examples that helped me a lot in reading some of the concepts. For example, I had no idea of how to write a memo when Dr. Robert Wood introduced us different types of memos. After class, I went back home and read the format of a memo and examples related to that memo, I got the idea about what is a memo look like and how to write it. Indeed, I think the time I get to know about what was going on and what this course is about is right before spring break. Dr. Robert Wood was very thankful. The midterm study guide he provided for us helped me a lot about knowing the course materials, especially the White House staff members. I have learned a lot while I was...
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...Preliminary Analysis Memo This Preliminary Analysis Memo is framed under the three research questions that guide this case study: (1) How do bilingual readers process texts by analyzing the miscues they produce during oral reading? (2) What are bilingual readers’ beliefs about the reading strategies they bring to the act of reading? (3) What are bilingual readers’ beliefs about themselves as readers? To answer these questions, I have requested Sasha’s (pseudonym) parents permission to participate in three procedures: (1) The Burke’s Reading Interview (BRI) (Burke, 1980), (2) A Reading Miscue Inventory (RMI), and (3) A Retrospective Miscue Analysis (RMA) (Goodman & Marek, 1996) session. For the sake of this Preliminary Analysis Memo, only...
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...the contracts. According to ASC 606-10-25-9, the February 1, 2018 agreement would be treated as one single contract because “The contracts are negotiated as a package with a single commercial objective” (FASB). The objective is to provide Buffett with an operational customer billings and management system, and the PCS serves to maintain, repair, and update the system (all needed to keep the system operational). For the resulting revenue recognized and revenue deferred as of April 30, 2018, see Figure 1 in the Appendix. Contract Modification To determine whether a contract will be modified as a separate contract or not, it is necessary to look at ASC 606-10-25-12. If both the specified goods/services are distinct and are sold at a price reflective of the standalone selling price (appropriately adjusted for circumstantial discounts), then the contract is a new contract. However, if only one or none of these conditions are satisfied, ASC 606-10-25-13 gives the guidelines on combining the contracts using the prospective approach. If the remaining unearned goods/services from the previous contract are distinct from the goods/services rendered before the modification, then the previous contract is to be terminated and the remaining goods/services are to be allocated to the new contract at the consideration promised. However, if the remaining unearned goods/services are not distinct, then the contract modification will be treated as a part of the existing contract, with revenue being...
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...Subject: Website Analysis of Apple and Samsung Abstract This memo will be discussing the utilization of .com websites of two of the world’s largest technology and electronic brands, Apple and Samsung. In this memo, we will explain how each company uses their websites to gear towards their specific brand and consumers. Each company has its own way of separating itself from competitors in the market, with Apple and Samsung, they tend to be on polar ends of the marketing and consumer snagging spectrum. While one company focuses in on the simplicity of heavy technology, the other weighs in on the variety of technology. Both companies use their websites to efficiently capture different audiences, and effectively together rack enough consumers to control 46.6% of the world market share in technology. The two companies both utilize their websites to be the driving force of their brand. Website Layout Apples website is a direct insight into the sophisticated, simplistic, and professional theme that Apple has tried to portray for decades now. With its sleek and mono-font, monochromatic design, the website is directly setup to create brand awareness. Immediately, an IProduct user or anyone familiar with Apples products recognizes that the layout and color scheme of the website, is the exact same layout and color scheme in the platforms they use for the IPad, ITouch, Mac, and IPhone. Their easy-to-use website also mimics the “for all ages” concept of their products. Samsung’s website...
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...ASSIGNMENT1: REFLECTIVE JOURNAL by Abrham A. Tsegaw Course: ENG 115 Instructor: Professor AUDREY L VAUGHAN October 14, 2013 My goal for this course is to gain means to improve my writing skills on my daily life this can apply for both my personal and professional life . I am planning to exercise my writings on my academic career, my professional environment and my personal life. I expect to use writing in my university career in many different ways, for example to write journals, assignments, research papers and all required academic writing throughout my university life. I expect to use writing in my professional career by writing business journals, reports, customer service e-mails and all necessary writings related to my job and I also expect to use writing in my personal life by writing personal letters, personal memo and personal emails. I set goals for my academic paper by following the essential steps required to have a complete writing. I start by generating ideas about my topic and see how far can I go with my current idea and modify it to fit into my writing method, then I relate my ideas to a specific assignment and I conduct research on my idea and make sure that i stick with the idea and organize my idea to make sure that I can still keep it or if it needs to be changed, then I make the initial draft and write it on a paragraph form and finally I revise my draft and write the final format. My biggest challenges when writing for others is to...
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...Career Development Plan Part II The merger between InterClean and EnviroTech is complete and now we must come full circle through training. The new sales team has been selected and ready to take InterClean and EnviroTech into the future. The new sales team is a combination of both companies’ employees; we have selected the best of the best who bring valuable experience and knowledge of the industry as well as knowledge of the products. In order for the sales team to be successful and reach their full potential there needs to be training established, thus the reason for the memo. We will be implementing a mentor program to complete the training. While the sales team brings past experience of sales it will be beneficial for them to be trained on customer service as this will be a big part of our credo and a necessity to be successful. With the newly merged companies we are also going international and have become a very diverse sales team and looking forward to a more diverse customer base. To bring the team together as one we will need to have training on building team skills and interpersonal skills. The training is not limited to the in the training room, we will be implementing not a mentoring program we will be also conducting evaluations monthly. The new training and mentoring needs As mentioned prior we have a combination of employees from both companies, do to this we will need to conduct training on the products and services we offer to the entire sales team and management...
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...Organizational Issues – Ethics Game ETH/316 December 12, 2012 Organizational Issues – EthicsGame The EthicsGame is a simulation program of University of Phoenix on real-world situations. It was written as a tool to help educate students on ethical decision-making. The simulation The Mysterious Blogger was chosen by the author to analysis is based on a company called G-BioSpot. A leading edge sports nutrition and supplements company founded by Carson Nelson, and Rian Miller. After working in the nutrition industry 10 years theydecide to open their own company (University of Phoenix, 2012). The author will review the simulation using the Barid Method decision-making process, and provide G-BioSpot with the best solution on their dilemma. The Mysterious Blogger The scenario in this simulation is the organization has a new computer security system and an employee has violated the non-disclosure agreement (NDA) by posting information about the company on a public blog. The blogger posting are about the security system and products. One of the IT employees without consent of the company hacks into the bloggers account and obtains the identity. The IT employee forwards the information to the Manager of Safety and Efficiency. Jorge from IT sees the anonymous e-mail sent to the manager and reveals the identity of both. The issue the Manager of Safety and Efficiency has is to whether use the information provided illegally to discipline or fire Jamal Moore (IT) and Aaron Webb (blogger)...
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...and duration of caring. After consent was obtained, researchers using semi-structured, face-to-face interviews and field notes gathered additional information from each subject. All interviews took place in secluded settings in a secure site chosen by the participants. There were three interviews conducted at the participants’ place of work. There where also sixteen interviews conducted in the hospitals where the patients were seen. Then the last two interviews took place at the patient’s home. The participants were asked a serious of thought provoking questions, which lead to different questions based on answers provided. These interviews lasted over a period of six months. The steps in this study are not easily reproducible. There are memos to develop an audit trail...
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