The ASCE Infrastructure Report Card and Its Connection to the Ellicott City Flash Flood Case Study

The ASCE Infrastructure Report Card and Its Connection to the Ellicott City Flash Flood Case Study

Student Name Institution Course Date

Q1 (a Jernigan)

In the essay "Primary Sources in History: Breaking Through the Myths," Keith Barton notes, “Ultimately, we cannot depend on any single source – primary or secondary – for reliable knowledge; we have to consult multiple sources in our quest to develop historical understanding.” Barton then proceeds to identify seven common beliefs (myths, Barton terms them) associated with primary sources. What do you think? Has Barton made a viable case for his myth argument, and how; or why not?

Q2 (a evans)

In this week’s discussion, research materials requirements planning (MRP) systems, point of sale (POS) systems, stock keeping units (SKU), and just in time (JIT) production.  Pick one and explain how it will help you optimize your inventory. Explain how one of the other methods would not help your business and why. Explain how inventory optimization is vital to the success of your business. Be specific to your business.

Q3 (jay)

· As children transition into the stage of adulthood, discuss what it means to be an adult.

· Explain how working for the parent impacts the relationship within the family.

· How do parents balance the responsibility of work and home?  Support your writing with facts and information. Your post cannot be solely opinion.

Q4 (jay)

Part one-

One of the things that impact a child's overall development is nutrition.

Explain why nutrition is important for child development, and how it has evolved within the family unit. Apply this concept to the lifestyle of busy parents and the impact it has had on the child, and within the family. How has the food industry responded?  How has our government responded?  How have schools responded both with what they serve students and also what they teach students?

Part two-

How does infectious disease and immunizations impact a child's health? What concerns should parents have? How do parents evaluate false claims, and what is the impact of false claims?

Q5 (tasha)

· As children transition into the stage of adulthood, discuss what it means to be an adult.

· Explain how working for the parent impacts the relationship within the family. How do parents balance the responsibility of work and home? Support your writing with facts and information. Your post cannot be solely opinion.

Q6 (quay)

· Explain how crowd management and risk management differ.

· Name some crowd management problems that you have observed either on television or in person and explain how they were dealt with.

· How can cell phone technology (smart phones) help with crowd management, if at all?

· In the past crowd managers have had to deal with crushes, mosh pits, alcohol, terrorism and other issues.

· What additional issues might a crowd management team have to deal with in the next 10 years?

Issues in Crowd Management

Q7 (quiita)

Using the online library, navigate to the library's "articles & databases" section and look within the Security & Global Studies database list.  Using one or more of the databases find 3 peer-reviewed journal articles to help you articulate your research interests.  When talking about the topic you are interested in researching be sure to reference the articles using the writing style specific to your field of study. In addition to presenting your research topic, and research question, your post should reflect that you have read this week's content material and demonstrate that you have a sense of the research cycle and what it means to carry out ethical research.

 

Within this course the assignments are scaffolded in that each of them should help you complete the final assignment in this course – a research proposal.  To help jump start the planning process, this week you'll need to discuss your research interests as they pertain to your field of study be it criminal justice, international relations, intelligence studies or etc.  Here the goal of the discussion is to help you narrow in on a possible research question you'd like to frame out for your week 3 assignment and will ultimately come to use in your research proposal.

 

Now consider the following questions:

What challenges are you having in coming up with a unique and narrowly focused research question?  Did you have any challenges finding articles within the library?  If so, what did you do to alter your search parameters?  Do you anticipate any difficulties in any of the phases of the research cycle as you pursue research on your topic? 

 

Q8 (white)

Please review this video,   Positional Power vs. Personal Power, and let's get prepared to answer some questions. 

Week 1 Scenario:

You are a new supervisor (you have been there 2 months) at a large organization that develops technology for the military. You have previous military service experience and just finished your Bachelor's Degree in Management from APUS.

You are doing well so far; your immediate boss is happy with the quotas being met and can see the changes in the behavior of some of the employees around you. However, there are three employees who work for you that are causing some issues. You must constantly remind them of due dates and their work is marginal.

You decided to counsel each of them in private of course. During the counseling sessions, you found that all three employees say that you think you're still in the military and expect too much too soon. 

One said that you use positional power all the time, another said that they felt you are not receptive to their ideas on how to make the work environment more fun. The last one told you that should have stayed in the military since you like to order everyone around!

A. How will you handle this situation?

B. What is the difference between positional power and personal power? (in your own words)

C. Give an example, from your personal life, of situations where you have used (or had used on you) both positional and personal power.

Future Leader Thoughts:  

Chapter 1 of The Future Leader (Morgan, 2020) discusses the leadership gap and struggles of good leaders to develop their personnel. Please answer the following: 

1. In your current position (or a previous one) do you feel your leadership skills are being developed (or not)? What would you like to see more (or less) of?   

Please go through the following links before getting started with your posts.

· Administrative Notes

· What is the purpose of a discussion?

· What are the responsibilities of the instructor?

· What are the responsibilities of the student?

· Instructions