You are a human services professional at an emergency shelter. A major flood has recently occurred in a nearby community, destroying many homes and businesses. Your new clients are the Rodriguez family: father, Michael; mother, Sarah; and twin 9-year-old daughters, Cynthia and Mary. The Rodriguez family has lost their home in the flood, and does not have flood insurance. In addition, the family's livelihood has been compromised because the restaurant where Sarah worked was destroyed in the flood. Michael is a full-time student, so the family has lost its only source of income. Identify and briefly describe the crisis/es facing the Rodriguez family. Describe the basic needs that first must be addressed for the family. Describe what the family's ongoing needs will be. Explain which issues will need to be addressed in order to remove the Rodriguez family from their current crisis/es. Explain which model(s) of intervention you might use to address the family's basic and ongoing needs, and why. Select at least three specific skills and/or strategies that would assist you in implementing the model(s) you selected. Then explain how you might execute these skills and/or strategies and why they might be effective in addressing the family's basic and ongoing needs. Support your Application Assignment with specific references to all resources used in its preparation. You are asked to provide a reference list only for those resources not included in the Learning Resources for this course.

Assume you are the human resource manager of a small seafood company. The general manager has told you that customers have begun complaining about the quality of your company’s fresh fish. Currently, training consists of senior fish cleaners showing new employees how to perform the job. Assuming your needs assessment indicates a need for training, how would you plan a training program? What steps should you take in planning the program?

US corn production is used primarily to feed cattle and hogs to produce meat for human consumption and to produce biofuels. Suppose the demand for corn as livestock feed is given by: Qfeed=24.5-4P ,where quantities are in billions of bushels and the price, P, is in dollars. The US government mandates that a fixed percentage of US gasoline be blended with ethanol-based biofuel.

Assume this mandate fixes the total quantity of corn used for domestic fuel production at 10.5 m. bushels per year. Assume the U.S. supply of corn is given as Qs=3P

Suppose the government decides to eliminate the biofuels mandate. The demand for corn by ethanol producers is given as, Qfuel=12-10P (in the absence of any mandate).
(c) Derive the producer surplus in the US corn market with and without the mandate. Are producers better or worse off under the biofuels mandate?
(d) In your opinion, is the biofuels mandate a regressive or progressive policy? Explain your answer.

1 Assume you are the Human Resource Manager of a large software firm with global presence. The employee turnover rate of the firm has hovered around 15% for the last three years, compared to the industry average of 20%. Competition for quality software professionals is expected to increase as more firms from the developed countries set up their operations offshore in developing economies. You foresee a shortage of software professionals in the labor market in the future at both entry and middle levels. You do not want to take chances.

) Explain how will you ensure the fit between the business strategy and HR strategy of this firm and what strategies will you adopt to manage the projected shortfall of software professionals?

b) Discuss the main problems faced by this organization and how the process of HUMAN RESOURCE PLANNING can help the organization to solve its problems. c) Discuss internal and external methods of strategic recruitment. Which methods will you use in the above mentioned scenario?

Q.2 Do you agree with the statement, ‘Training is the solution to all performance problems’? What factors other than skills or knowledge deficiency may lead to a gap between expected and actual performance of an employee? Explain you answer with context of Training Need Assessment process.

The human body has two signaling systems, the hormone system and the nervous system to control body functions.

a) Describe the two systems

b) Why do we need two communication systems?

c) Do the two systems have evolutionarily the same origin? Justify your answer and give clear examples.

My teacher graded this with an E, saying that I am not identifying and explaining in detail, clearly, and correctly, for the two systems. And that I don't use correct and relevant terminology throughout. They are also saying that I don't have a well-developed and problematized justification with examples for both communication systems. Additionally, in the discussion I didn't present well-founded and nuanced arguments and give a detailed and nuanced account of the consequences of several positions, and didn't highlight relevant new question at issues that will guide the discussion forward.

What can I add to get a higher score?

My answer:

The nervous system causes information to be disseminated to the brain by means of the nerves in the body that send signals to the brain in the form of electrical stimulation, what can be sent to the brain is that in case you are injured, the nerves signal to the brain that you have been damaged itself. The nervous system consists of two parts, which are central and peripheral. The brain and spinal cord form the central nervous system, and there are various parts of the brain that cooperate with the nerves. The peripheral nervous system is the nerves found in the body that connect to the brain and spinal cord and consists of the motor and sensory nerves, motor nerves are the nerves that are connected to muscles, and sensory nerves convey signals from the sensory organs to our brain.

The hormone system is glands (e.g., thyroid glands, ovaries/testicles) that form substances that signal and send information in the body and are transported with the blood. The hormone system determines a person's growth, metabolism, sex drive, reproduction. Examples of hormones may be cortisol, which is produced in the adrenal glands in stressful situations and causes blood pressure and pulse to rise and the trachea to open more, leading to the body being ready to handle dangerous situations where life is in danger. An important part of the hormone system is the pituitary gland that controls the remaining glands and its hormone production and which sits in a small part of the brain, and because the pituitary gland forms its hormones, the remaining glands are stimulated to produce their hormones. It is said that hormones only affect certain cells and act as chemical information signals. In the testes, men have their sex hormones, and that is necessary for men to develop the genitals, the hormone that develops there is called testosterone while the woman has her hormones in the ovaries and there she has her estrogen, the female hormones.

The communication systems are important because one needs to know the body's need for survival, and this is where the hormone and nervous systems help by sending signals from and to the brain, for example, Are hungry and need food or you are injured, the body must quickly send white blood cells to fight potential infections. For example, cortisol is important to produce in potential danger while the brain signals the heart to pump blood faster via cortisol to send oxygen-rich blood to the muscles in order to strain them in anticipation of a potential threat to a dangerous animal. The peripheral nervous system helps man to move joints and muscles, and from this, you can move, see things around and interpret things with the organs of the senses.

The nervous and hormone systems have the same origin because the nervous system records the body that is exposed to and the hormones help to solve any problems the body is exposed by secreting important hormones that prepare the body for dangers such as the hormone cortisol, for example, everything that affects the nervous system causes a release of different hormones, and it is important that there is a balance with these hormones or else you can have problems in the body.

Slight wind of 2.2 m/s is moving over a human cheek of length .05m and is causing the skin to lose water. What is the thickness of the mass transfer boundary layer at half of the distance (0.025m) from the edge of the cheek surface over which this water loss is taking place? The viscosity of air can be assumed as 1.85*10-5 Pa.s, density of air is 1.2 kg/m3 and the diffusity of water vapor in air is 2.6*10-4 m2 /s. Temperature is 37C

Sartre says that existentialism leads one to recognize the human condition as one of forlornness, anguish, and despair. What does he specifically mean by each of these? In terms of the notion of anguish, why would Sartre argue against the idea that absolute values exist? How does his position against the notion of absolute value lead Sartre to a very odd view of moral decision-making? How do we determine on his view what the right or good choice is? How is this different from the way in which we usually engage in moral investigation and choice?