FIRST Individual Project – Unit 4 – Criminal activity and the illegal drug industry

Compare and contrast the organizational structure of the mafia with that of a motorcycle gang. Do you think that drugs are their main source of income? How do they distribute their goods?

Assignment Guidelines

Content/60% (28 points each):

Organization/15% (21 points):

APA Formatting/10% (14 points):

Verbatim Text/5% (7 points):

Mechanics/10% (14 points):

Address the following in 3–5 pages:

· Research mafia organizations within the United States.

· What is their involvement in the illegal drug industry? Explain.

· How are drugs transported and sold by mafia organizations within the United States? Explain.

· What criminal activities result from this drug trafficking? Explain.

· Research the Colombian drug cartel.

· What types of crimes are commonly committed by members of these types of organizations? Explain.

· Regarding criminal activities, how does international drug trafficking compare to drug trafficking within the United States?

· Compare being charged under RICO to being charged under IRS violations.

· What are the penalties of each, and is there any civil redress in either one?

· Be sure to reference all sources using APA style.

· **Please note that you are required to support your views by citing your sources in all assignments. Even if the question asks for your opinion, you are still expected to support your opinion with in-text citations and references to published works and other materials. APA format is necessary for your assignments when citing references and assistance on using APA is available using the APA Citation Center.

Requirements: 3-5 pages

here is the course textbook for references – Abadinsky, H. (2017). Drug Use and Abuse: A Comprehensive Introduction (9th Edition). Cengage Limited. My professor keeps stating that I am lacking ample in-text citations.

2nd Week 1 Project

Over the next four weeks, you will review and analyze a pre-intervention elementary school asthma database from a community that has four elementary schools. Each week, you will write a short paper describing the role of an informatician in regard to data capture and use within the Public Health Information Management Systems (PHIS) and Public Health Information Network (PHIN). You will explore the data elements, database technologies, analytics, and processes used by an information including data capture, scrubbing, coding, warehousing, managing, and reporting of public health information.

In Week 5, you will complete a comprehensive term paper and PowerPoint presentation that demonstrates a public health needs assessment using your primary asthma source data. Your paper and presentation should show why an asthma prevention intervention program is needed in the selected community and summarize how you came to your conclusions. The objective of this five-week project is for you to demonstrate the processes used in public health informatics through its application.

You will begin your course project by explaining how data is collected, scrubbed, coded, and stored within the PHIS. You will then explain how data is organized in databases, using the asthma data provided below. You will describe the data elements in the spreadsheet and the processes of an information by answering the questions below.Note: Use this Excel spreadsheet throughout the course to complete your weekly data analyses and prepare your written assignments as they relate to public health informatics. Your weekly assignments will provide data to support your final term paper to be submitted in Week 5.

Based on the data in the spreadsheet, prepare a 3–4-page paper addressing the following questions:

Introduction: How is information collected, organized, scrubbed, coded, and entered into the PHIS?

Asthma Database Analyses:

Describe the structural organization of your database.

What is the survey population description?

Define pre-intervention

Define a database record. How many records are in your database?

Define a database field. How many fields are in your database?

Define a database field data definition (DD). What is an example in this database of a DD?

Based on the data collected, what is the purpose and potential use of this asthma survey data?

Summary: From the perspective of an information, discuss the asthma database’s key structural components, its organization, and potential uses.Submit a 3–4-page paper in a Microsoft Word document.

Requirements: 3-4

3rd grading assignments attached ZIP called Z1

4th this-course-has-focused-on-the-beginning-phase-of-social-work

This course has focused on the Beginning Phase of Social Work Practice. For this paper, choose one or more client systems that you have had a meaningful beginning with. Using the two required texts (Shulman and Kirst-Ashman & Hull), select four practice concepts relevant to the beginning phase of Social Work Practice and compose your paper. Practice concepts mean the applied social work skills you have utilized. Please see additional sheet attached to this assignment for some examples.

Your paper will need to reflect the following:

1. Offer a definition, from the text, followed by an explanation in your own words of each of the four concepts you have selected.

2. For each concept, submit a process vignette that provides an example of how you did or did not utilize the concept in your work with the particular client system. You will need to do this for each of the four concepts identified.

3. After each example, critically analyze your work by commenting on the strengths and weaknesses of the exchange. Through self-reflection offer ideas as to how you might have improved your use of the practice concept. Be specific.

4.Select a particular client system you interacted with during your internship and discuss any obstacles or challenges that occurred in your practice with this client system. Be sure to provide a clear example of the challenge or obstacle you encountered. Be specific as to how this impacted the nature of the work. Be particularly attentive to issues around diversity and difference including: age, class, race, culture, ability, gender, gender identity and expression, immigration status, mental health status, political ideology, religion, sexual orientation.

5. Discuss in what way your personal feelings did or did not impact on developing the working relationship with the client system you identified in number four. Comment on any challenges between your personal and professional value systems.

Develop your thinking by utilizing additional literature sources from inside and outside the course syllabus. The suggested length of the paper is 10 – 12 pages. Please ensure 12 point font double spaced, 1 inch margins and APA format.

Requirements: 10-12 pages

5TH RES7400 Factorial Designs

factorial designs, in a sense, allow us to research more than one study at the same time. Factorial designs allow researchers to study several independent variables at once, as well as the interactive effects of the independent variables on the dependent variable

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