Answer the following questions after reading The Saints and The Roughnecks article. Explain labeling or social reaction theory. Explain self-fulfilling prophecy. Discuss how labeling influenced the lives of these boys and resulted in self-fulfilling prophecy. Give specific examples. What role did economics or social class play in the labeling? Compare your high-school experience with those at Hannibal High. In what ways did your "reputation" either protect or harm you. Think of a time when you were labeled negatively or positively by an authority figure, a parent, or someone else significant to you. How powerful was the label? Did it influence how others responded to you? Did it affect your perceptions of and feelings about yourself Give an example. If it was negative did you do something to try to counteract the label or its effects Did you eventually overcome, transform or shed the label? How and why?
In: Psychology
The heights of European 13-year-old boys can be approximated by a normal model with mean μ of 63.1 inches and standard deviation σ of 2.42 inches.
A) What is the probability that a randomly selected 13-year-old boy from Europe is taller than 65.1 inches?
(use 4 decimal places in your answer)
B) A random sample of 4 European 13-year-old boys is selected. What is the probability that the sample mean height x is greater than 65.1 inches?
(use 4 decimal places in your answer)
C) A random sample of 9 European 13-year-old boys is selected. What is the probability that the sample mean height x is greater than 65.1 inches?
(use 4 decimal places in your answer)
In: Statistics and Probability
Big Town Industrial Supply is considering a new project with an initial investment of $1,000,000, and will produce a product that sells for $1,000 each, with variable costs of $700 per unit. The company uses straight-line depreciation, and the fixed assets are expected to have no salvage value when the project is complete. It is a 10-year project. Fixed costs are estimated to be $350,000 per year. The company’s required rate of return is 15%. Please show all of your work.
◦ What is the accounting break-even level
of production?
◦ What is the Operating Cash Flow at
accounting break-even?
◦ What is the cash break-even level of
production?
◦ What is the financial break-even level
of production?
In: Finance
Alzheimer Case Study
February 19, 1940, Mrs. Eunice Greene was born in a small rural town known as Attapulgas, Ga. She remained there all of her life. In 1960, she got married to Mr. Thomas Greene. Together they had five children, three boys and two girls. She worked as a primary school educator at Decatur Fundamentals Learning School until she retired in the summer of 1992. Her life was very active. She loved to garden, travel, bake, spend time with her friends, grandchildren, husband, and volunteer in her church. Every Sunday evening she and her husband would go out for long Sunday drives. On their last few Sunday drives, Mrs. Greene repeatedly asked Mr. Thomas, “Where are we going? Where are you taking me? Are we going to school today?” Mr. Greene replied, “Pumpkin, we’re taking our normal Sunday drive like we always do”. While on the drive, Mr. Greene stopped at one of their friend’s home, Jo and Mary, since they hadn’t chatted for a while. While sitting during the conversation, Mrs. Greene would say, “Suzy, is that you?” Then she turned to her husband and stated, “Tommy, who is this lady? I knew it! I knew it! You’ve been sleeping around on me.” Moments later, she struck at her husband with her fist and then proceeded to strike at Mary. They all came together to help settle Mrs. Eunice. Eventually, they were able to settle her down and get her into their vehicle. On the way back home, Mr. Tommy stopped by the local country store but could not get out with Mrs. Eunice because she had soiled her incontinent brief and her dress. This left Mr. Thomas not being able to go inside the store because he did not feel it would be wise to leave his wife alone. When they returned home, Mr. Tommy assisted his wife with her care. By this time, it was nearly time for bed. They both went on to bed. At 11:30 p.m. Eunice awakened and wandered out of the back door while her husband was still sleeping. Mr. Tommy woke up in a hurry to use the toilet. After he returned from the bathroom he realized Eunice was no longer in the bed. He called their children explaining what happened. They advised their father to go out looking for their mother and they would continue to help once they got there. Tommy placed on his slippers, grabbed his flash light and walked as fast as he could out of the back door. He screamed as loud as he could constantly, “Eunice, Eunice darling, where are you?” He combed through the house then the front and back yard. He looked inside the chicken coop and the pig pen. He walked the old lonely and dark dirt road. He looked in the cars. He looked everywhere he could possibly think of. Thirty minutes later the children began arriving. They looked in the house and retraced the areas their father searched frantically. Their mother did not surface. Mr. Taft, one of the local sheriffs was called for help. Because the family was very dear to him and Mrs. Eunice was his school teacher once, he decided to get out of his bed and help the family in the search since thy did not feel like the local unit would begin searching as fast as they wanted them to. Mr. Taft rushed to their home but before he jumped into his car, he made sure his dog Mabel joined him. Once Mr. Taft got to the family’s home, he asked a few more questions and asked for an article of Mrs. Eunice’s clothing for Mabel to sniff. Mabel was then placed on the hunt for Mrs. Eunice. Within ten minutes into the search, Mabel found Mrs. Eunice lying out in the sugar cane patch peacefully asleep.
Questions
1. After reading the contents in this story, what stage of Alzheimers would you place Mrs. Eunice- mild, moderate, severe? After reading the story, I believe that Mrs. Eunice was
2. In the stage in where you placed Mrs. Greene, identify other symptoms that you as a caregiver would see?
3. As a healthcare provider, what type of education/recommendations would you provide to this family? Please list at least 5 recommendations/educational tips.
4. List at least 3 support groups that can assist family’s/patients with this type of illness.
5. Identify 10 early signs and symptoms of dementia or alzheimers.
6. How do you care for a patient in this stage of the disease (i.e, dressing, eating, activities, exercise, incontinence, sleep problems, wandering, safety, physician appointments)?
7. If Mrs. Eunice was placed into a nursing home, what would you educate the family on going about the search for one?
8. What tools are utilized to diagnose a person with Alzheimers?
9. What are some risk factors for developing this disease and notate how each plays a role in its development?
10. How do you communicate with the Alzheimer’s patient?
In: Nursing
In public school there has been a new contract system that is being offered to teachers, they now have the choice to give up life contracts in exchange for increased pay, in this new system they get short term contracts that are renewed by employees based on performance. What asymmetric information problem can occur if only some school distrcts implement this program and others don’t. Use charts if needed
In: Economics
In: Psychology
With the following questions mark whether each is non-reasoning or reasoning. If "reasoning," then:
1. Circle indicator words and/or phrases
2. Mark off and number the statements
3. Paraphrase and list the statements
4. Identify the main conclusion
The World Bank has recently estimated the number of people in absolute poverty in the Third World at around 780 million. Half of them are in South Asia. The other half lives in East Asia, sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America, North Africa and the Middle East. Roughly 80 percent of these poor live in the countryside, mostly as small farmers and landless laborers. Poverty is thus an essentially rural phenomenon.
________ Non-reasoning ________ Reasoning
In the first place, we may start with the strong presumption that Colonel Openshaw had some very strong reason for leaving America. Men at his time of life do not change all their habits, and exchange willingly the charming climate of Florida for the lonely life of an English provincial town. His extreme love of solitude in England suggests the idea that he was in fear of someone or something, so we may assume as a working hypothesis that it was fear of something or someone which drove him from America.
Sherlock Holmes in "The Five Orange Pips" by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
________ Non-reasoning ________ Reasoning
In: Finance
In: Other
Project
Scenario:
You are a journalist for a hometown newspaper. You
have received a number of phone calls and emails from readers who
are concerned about how much they are paying for gasoline. One of
the readers wrote the following:
“I
think, on average, that a driver in our town pays more for a gallon
of regular
gasoline than a driver in other towns in our state.”
Your editor asks you to investigate the gasoline
prices of four towns (similar in size to your town, town B) and
write a short article about your findings. You have gathered some
data, shown in Table 1 below. The data represents the price paid
for one gallon of regular gasoline from a random sample of gas
stations in each of the four towns.
Table 1- The retail price for one gallon of
regular gasoline at 10 randomly selected stations in four towns as
of September 1, 2017.
Town A
Town B
Town C
Town D
2.73
2.75
2.72
2.79
2.71
2.71
2.71
2.71
2.68
2.72
2.69
2.73
2.68
2.74
2.77
2.72
2.71
2.77
2.71
2.75
2.72
2.78
2.72
2.78
2.71
2.75
2.74
2.71
2.74
2.79
2.76
2.78
2.71
2.80
2.71
2.72
2.69
2.75
2.75
2.74
Writing the
Article:
- Now that you have gathered and analyzed your data,
you are ready to write your article for the
newspaper. Please be sure to make it a minimum of one full
page in length, 12 pt. Times New Roman font, double-spaced, with
1-inch margins all around.
- You are to include at least 1 graph that best
represents your data analysis, your original table of data, and
reference to at least 3 of the questions noted above. Your article
is to be well-written and free from spelling and grammatical
mistakes. Appropriate citations should be included if you are
referencing researched data or comments made by others in your
article. Please try to make your article interesting and creative,
complete with an appropriate story headline.
In: Statistics and Probability
1).In a test of a gender-selection technique, results consisted of 249
baby girls and 19 baby boys. Based on this result, what is the probability of a girl born to a couple using this technique? Does it appear that the technique is effective in increasing the likelihood that a baby will be a girl?
The probability that a girl will be born using this technique is approximately ? (Type an integer or decimal rounded to three decimal places as needed.)
2.)In a genetics experiment on peas, one sample of offspring contained 368 green peas and
14 yellow peas. Based on those results, estimate the probability of getting an offspring pea that is green. Is the result reasonably close to the value of 3/4
that was expected? The probability of getting a green pea is approximately ? (Type an integer or decimal rounded to three decimal places as needed.)
3.)Use the following results from a test for marijuana use, which is provided by a certain drug testing company. Among
149 subjects with positive test results, there are 28 false positive results; among 157 negative results, there are
3 false negative results. If one of the test subjects is randomly selected, find the probability that the subject tested negative or did not use marijuana. (Hint: Construct a table.)
The probability that a randomly selected subject tested negative or did not use marijuana is ? (Do not round until the final answer. Then round to three decimal places as needed.)
In: Statistics and Probability