Discussion Prompt:
Symbolic interactionism is at the core of Chicago School soci
Discussion Prompt:
Symbolic interactionism is at the core of Chicago School sociology/criminology. Discuss an interaction with your friends or family and document the symbolic interactions that occur.
How does the symbolic interaction prevent or support criminal activity?
Select a case from the ICC CasesLinks(https://www.icc-cpi.int/cases) to an exter
Select a case from the ICC CasesLinks(https://www.icc-cpi.int/cases) to an external site., then:
Provide a brief overview of the case
The reason the ICC is hearing the case
Challenges the ICC faced/faces in the case
Your opinion on the effectiveness of the ICC to adjudicate the case
Did you know that there is an American Tort Museum? Take a look at the below lin
Did you know that there is an American Tort Museum? Take a look at the below link:
https://www.tortmuseum.org/
Please visit it virtually and look around. You’ll find a number of really interesting cases, including that of the famous “flaming rat”. While you are there, please find and discuss a case that you found there.
Tell us about what kind of a tort was involved, what the legal elements ere, and what happened.
Why do you think that the museum included your selected case to be one of its exhibits?
How long ago did your chosen case take place? Has tort law changed since then? How so?
Compare and contrast your selected museum case to a recent case involving similar circumstances.
Apply what you have learned in this course to what you discovered in the tort museum (e.g., how was your selected museum case investigated, and how would you investigate it nowaday?).
Please find and then discuss a news story or a court opinion published or issued
Please find and then discuss a news story or a court opinion published or issued from the date of the start of this class dealing with a tort law topic explored in this class. Ideally, you should locate a news story or court opinion decided in your home state.
State: Texas
Start date: December 2, 2024
Brief Assignment 1: How Does Connecticut’s Substance Use Compare with the Nation
Brief Assignment 1: How Does Connecticut’s Substance Use Compare with the Nation and a Randomly Selected State?
For this assignment, you will be using data from the 2021-2022 National Survey on Drug Use and Health to examine differences in drug use and alcohol/drug use disorders between Connecticut, the nation, and a randomly selected state.
The file containing the 2021-2022 National Survey on Drug Use and Health is in this folder. To complete this assignment you will need to look at 8 of the tables in the document. Tables 2, 7, 9, 11, 12 & 13 contain the results of nationally representative data on the frequency of marijuana, cocaine, heroin, hallucinogen, methamphetamine, and prescriiption pain reliever misuse over the past year. Data includes the nation as a whole (Total U.S.) as well as each individual state. For all of these Tables except Table 9, focus on the first column of data (frequency of use in those aged 12 or older); for Table 9focus on the third column (frequency of use in those aged 18 or 25). Tables 23 & 25 contain the results of nationally representative data on the frequency of an alcohol use disorder and a drug use disorder in the nation as a whole and in each individual state. Again, focus on the first column of data (aged 12 or older).
Step 1: Compare Connecticut to the Nation
For each Table, compare the frequency for Connecticut with the Total U.S.
Classify the difference between the two as Very small, Small, Moderate, or Large using the following “percent of the percent” system: Take the higher of the 2 frequencies and divide it by the lower one. If the resulting value ranges from 0 to 1.0, classify the difference as Very small; if the value ranges from 1.1 to 2.0, classify the difference as Small; if the value ranges from 2.1 to 3.0, classify the difference as Moderate; if the difference is greater than 3.1,classify the difference as Large.
Construct a paragraph describing how Connecticut compares to the Total U.S. on the eight tables. You can integrate your data/calculations into the text of your response or place them in a separate table that you create. Conclude your paragraph noting the degree to which the results surprised you: Did you think Connecticut was going to be higher or lower in substance use and substance use disorders than the nation as a whole?
Step 2: Compare Connecticut to a Randomly Selected State
After you’ve compared Connecticut to the nation, choose an individual state to compare Connecticut with that begins with the same letter as your first or last name (e.g., if your last name is Smith you could select South Dakota or South Carolina). Run the same kind of analysis as you did in Step 1 and construct a paragraph describing how Connecticut compares to that state. As before, you can integrate your data/calculations into the text of your response or place them in a separate table that you create. Conclude your paragraph noting the degree to which the results surprised you: Did you think Connecticut was going to be higher or lower in substance use and substance use disorders than this other state?
Format:
Uploaded as an MS Word document or pdf
1” margins on all sides
Double spaced
12-point Times New Roman
Page numbered, with page number in the upper right or left hand corner
No formal citations/reference page needed
Due:
Upload the assignment to Blackboard by end of the day on 2/4.
Part I. Assume that you are working as a litigation support paralegal at a per
Part I. Assume that you are working as a litigation support paralegal at a personal injury law firm in New York. As such, you have been asked to work with the attorney performing the preliminary interview of each potential client. Identify what kind of investigation you would like to conduct and the different sources you would consult to further the investigation for prospective client Daniel (see below). Be sure to consider each of the facts of the case, as well as all the potential defendants.
Daniel, a lawyer from New York on a business trip to Birmingham, Alabama, exited a steak house after a client meeting. While walking from the hotel after his meeting with his client, Daniel noticed a car (parked by a valet driver for a nearby fancy restaurant in Birmingham named Casa La Femme) rolling down a hill and out of the private parking lot in his direction.
When questioned after the accident, the valet driver testified that he put the car in park and turned off the car’s ignition when he parked the car. In a futile attempt to avoid the car, Daniel pushed an elderly homeless man out of his way. However, the car struck Daniel, breaking both of his legs in several places.
The homeless man whom Daniel pushed out of the way picked Daniel’s wallet, took his watch, and then walked away. A passerby named James, an online instructor on a visit to the city, called the police and ambulance. After the accident, Daniel learned that the car was manufactured by Volkswagen and serviced by Billy Bob’s Auto Repair, a local repair shop in Birmingham, Alabama. Because of Daniel’s injuries, he lost several weeks of work and now walks with a permanent limp.
In preparation for the preliminary investigation into Daniel’s case, the attorney asked you to outline in some detail about the following:
What needs to be learned from Daniel, and why?
Who else needs to be interviewed, and why? What kind of information are you seeking from each?
What other kinds of background information you would want to acquire? Why? What sources would you use to gain that kind of knowledge?
What theories of liability are relevant? What is the plan for proving or disproving them?
What defenses, if any, could any of the potential defendants use — and why?
Are there any other principles or regulations from other fields that could affect Daniel’s case?
Are there any other kinds of obstacles that could affect either Daniel’s case or the defense by any of the potential defendants? If so, what are they and what are the potential implications?
What are the legal / ethical / logistical or other challenges to your New York law office possibly accepting Daniel’s case?
Assuming that your office accepts Daniel’s case, what is your plan for keeping track of the incoming data and synthesizing it for easy use by the attorneys in the forthcoming litigation?
What specific resources did you use to formulate the investigative plan?
Did you find any contradictory resources? What did you do about them (e.g., dismiss them as irrelevant, include them in your analysis, etc.)?
How do you know that your resources are relevant, current, accurate and reliable? How did you find them?
In light of all that you have learned, what is your recommendation to the lawyer: should Daniel’s case be accepted or not? Why?
Part II. Please create your own original fact pattern that illustrates several of the concepts dealing with tort investigation, discussed in our readings. Explain why you set up your fact pattern as you did.
Problem Space
Write a Basic Memo. Your Project manager, Dr. Samma, wants to know
Problem Space
Write a Basic Memo. Your Project manager, Dr. Samma, wants to know what your basic approach is to develop a theory. Dr. Samma also asked that you write a memorandum that presents your ideas on theory development. Use the basic memo format.
Discuss what you will need to show to make your theory credible.
Assignment Criteria
You will use the following criteria to write your writing assignment:
Use The Professional Strategies as your Download The Professional Strategies as yourprimary source for formatting your memo.
The length of your writing assignment will be from one to one and a half pages in length. You will be penalized for shorter or longer correspondence.
Text will be single-spaced.
Cite at least two sources using footnote or APA style in-text citations only.
Use proper grammar and punctuation.
In-text citations will be made using APA style copyright footnotes or APA style in-text citations. Use only one style per paper. Review how to use ibid, supra, etc. in your footnotes.
Prompt
For this discussion, please use your knowledge of leadership to answer th
Prompt
For this discussion, please use your knowledge of leadership to answer the following questions. Provide specific examples for each response. Use ALL of the required readings, lectures, and discussion videos, in some capacity, to respond:
What is motivation, and why is it important to know how to motivate employees?
Choose ONE motivation theory, briefly describe it, and relate the theory to leadership.
What are some ways in which a manager can increase their personal power? List specific examples of types of power.
Explain the barriers to effective communications.
What kind of strategies can a leader employ to reduce or eliminate a rift within a team?
Guidelines
For full credit, you must demonstrate a clear understanding of the readings and course concepts. Your response should be analytical, rather than merely descriptive. Meaning, that I would like you to contribute new information from your own analysis of the readings. Do not just copy and paste the reading into your response. The discussion videos usually help to reify the topic at hand, but it is more important that you draw from the course readings and lectures than watching the video alone. I will deduct points if you do not show evidence you are reading course materials and drawing your analysis from empirical sources, meaning, stay away from using conjecture, too many anecdotes, or personal opinion, some are ok but it should mostly read as academic as possible. Make sure to provide proper in-text citations (see Writing Resources for more on APA and ASA formatting).
Think of Discussions as a mini-essay. You may respond in paragraph form, short-hand, or bullet points but please give enough details so I can verify you read and comprehend the readings.