Can religious experiences or teachings in other faiths be validated?

In a personal reflection of 1,000– words, consider how a Christian might benefit from a study of other religions by addressing the following:

Can Christian dialogue with other religious traditions be a part of the calling to proclaim the Gospel?
What can Christians learn from other religious traditions?
Can religious experiences or teachings in other faiths be validated?
How can Christians think critically about their encounters with members of other faiths?
Be sure to support your personal reflections with examples and constructive thought

Classroom Resources

1. Aren’t all Religions the Same?

Read “Aren’t all Religions the Same?” by Ewing, from the RZIM website.

2. Don’t all Religions lead to God?

Read “Don’t all Religions lead to God?” by Ewing, from the RZIM website.

3. Isn’t Christianity Arrogant?

Read “Isn’t Christianity Arrogant?” by Bannister, from the RZIM website.

4. The Global Christian Population: An Interactive Feature

Read “The Global Christian Population: An Interactive Feature,” from the Pew Research Religion & Public Life Project.

http://features.pewforum.org/global-christianity/map.php

How is the morally upright person to act

Write a 175- to 250-word summary on Confucianism that addresses the following topics:
• What are the Five Great Relationships?
• How is the morally upright person to act?
• What is the role of Confucianism in Chinese culture and society today?

How do different fields of study approach religion?

Write a 750- to 1,050-word paper that addresses the following topics:
• What is essential (in the practices and beliefs) for a tradition to be called a religion?
• Illustrate your points by referring to the commonalities of the three Western religions.
• How do different fields of study approach religion?
• What are some critical issues in the academic study of religion?

What has changed about the roles of women in the religion over time?

Choose one of the religions discussed in this course. Write a 1,050- to 1,400-word paper that addresses the following questions: What are common characteristics the assigned religion shares with the others? How is this religion responding to challenges in the modern world? What has changed about the roles of women in the religion over time? Cite at least five references in addition to the textbook.

Tools for Software Development

Answer each question with how you would organise development to meet the specific needs of the
teams and tasks described in each question. You should consider whether the staff should be split
into teams or not, how staff will communicate, which work flow methodology best fits the
requirements.
There are no specific right answers to these questions, it is more important to correctly justify the
decisions you have made.
Please submit one Word or PDF document for this assignment, but keep the three scenarios
independent as if they are prepared for different examiners. If you recommend similar workflow or
tools, you can replicate sentences or paragraphs across different scenarios.
NOTE: This assignment requires material covered in weeks 1 to 6.
Scenario 1 (30%)
(Upto 3 pages including references. You may use diagrams, tables, and references as appropriate.)
Consider you’re a founder of a start-up company, with the primary business on software
development. The development team includes 5 software engineers. The company rents a space
from the incubation centre in Mawson Lakes Technology Park, and the entire development team is
placed in this office. The company has won a 1-year contract project for developing an economic
complexity analysis and visualisation tool for South Australia Department of State Development. The
project will be developed in Java, including both server (running on a UNIX server) and client
applications (Win/OSX/Linux desktops and Android devices). As the CTO of this company, you are
responsible for specifying the workflow methodology for this project. You are also responsible for
making decisions on the staff office allocation.
In this exercise, you’re required to nominate a suitable workflow. Your report should include the
details of the workflow with justifications. Your report should also include suggested software tools to
be used in the workflow (except tools covered in topics M08-M13.)
Scenario 2 (30%)
(Upto 3 pages including references. You may use diagrams, tables, and references as appropriate.)
After one year of successful achievements, the company rapidly expands to a team of 30 software
engineers. The company now owns two offices for software development teams, including one in
Mawson Lakes and one in Adelaide CBD. The company has won a contract project for Australian Air
Force, developing computer vision software for tracking multiple moving objects on F-35. Part of the
project requires frequent visit to and from RAAF Base in Edinburgh (which requires security
clearance) and part of the project does not. The project span over 3 years, and subdivided to 6
milestone deliverables.
In this exercise, you’re required to decide the staff office allocation and to nominate a suitable
workflow. Your report should include the details of the workflow with justifications. Your report should
also include suggested software tools to be used in the workflow (except tools covered in topics M08-
M13.)
Scenario 3 (40%)
(Upto 5 pages including references. You may use diagrams, tables, and references as appropriate)
The company decides to contribute to open source community as the company grows, and the
company decides to recruit the top 5 developers of the JUnit open source project as full time
employees and relocate them to the Mawson Lakes office. These five developers will to coordinate
the development among national and international volunteers for the on-going maintenance of JUnit
and provide commercial (paid) support. As the CTO of this company, you’re responsible to group the
open source developers into teams, and specify a workflow to adopt.
In this exercise, you’re required to specify an adequate workflow. Your report should include the
details of the workflow with justifications. Your report should also include suggested software tools to
be used in the workflow (except tools covered in topics M08-M13.) If you use any shell commands or
scripts for analysis, you can integrate them as part of the report or as the appendix as appropriate.
The appendix does not count towards the page limit.
A clone of the JUnit git repository is available on the prac UNIX server (130.220.208.107), available
under /vol/junit. Please use this snapshot as the JUnit github repository may be updated over time.
Please do not clone extra copies due to limited hard-disk space on the server, or penalties apply.
You can make a symbolic link of the junit directory under your home directory:
$ ln -s /vol/junit ~/
Then, you can cd into this directory to perform analysis on the code and on the version control
commit logs:
$ cd ~/junit
Please be aware that you do not have the write access to files and subdirectories under junit/. If you
wish to save anything, you should save them to another place under your home directory

In assignment 1 part 3, the instructions says “… you’re responsible to group the open source developers into teams”. You can analyse the junit repository cloned on the unix server, to identify the active developers and their contributions, and group the developers in teams. Hint: you can git to help identify active developers.

 

Explain Steinheim’s approach to Jewish revelation. provide a Christian response.

question 1: describe the emancipation of Jews into Western Europe, from the Jewish perspective – , and Mendelssohn’s effort to adapt Judaism to it. (31-64)

question 2: Explain Formstecher’s history (and/or metahistory) of the nature-spirit relationship, with regard to Judaism and Christianity. (pages 139-170)

question 3: Explain Steinheim’s approach to Jewish revelation. provide a Christian response. (pages 211-257)

question 4: Drawing from pages 476-484 , compare the views of Buber, Heschel and Soloveichik with regard to the encounter between God and man. (pages 476-484)

Leadership And Management In Nursing

1.Discuss the differences between a leader and a manager.
2. Which is more important, working for an effective leader or an effective manager? Explain your answer.
3. Observe the nurse manager in a unit to which students have been assigned. What management style is displayed? How does the staff respond to this style
4. What qualities do you think are most important to be a good nurse manager?
1. Interview the nurse manager on your assignment unit. What interpersonal, decisional, and informational activities does he or she complete on a daily basis?
2. You are the nurse manager on your unit. One of the most experienced staffers has been out on sick leave, and another just had a baby. The rest of the staff are working very hard to pick up the slack to avoid using agency personnel. What tangible and intangible rewards might you use to thank the staff?
3. PART 1: Begin by writing a 50-word description of the ideal nurse manger, someone you would like to work for. Describe a real-life nurse manager whom you have encountered in one of your clinical rotations. What qualities of this person meet your ideal? In what ways does this individual not meet your ideal? (Reminder: nobody’s perfect.)
PART 2: Think about becoming an ideal manager yourself. What qualities of an ideal manager do you already possess? What qualities do you still need to develop? How will you accomplish this?
1. Find your own state’s requirements for informed consent. Do elective procedures and emergency situations use the same standard?
2. Obtain a copy of your state’s Nurse Practice Act. Does the act give adequate guidance for nurses to know if an action is within the scope of nursing practice?
1. Explain how the Nurse Practice Act in your state provides for consumer protection and for professional nursing progress.
2. What are your thoughts on multistate licensure? How does it strengthen and weaken professional nursing?
3. As a new nurse, how can you ensure confidentiality in clinical settings?
4. How can nurses safeguard the confidentiality of medical information when sending it by fax or e-mail?
5. Explain the role of the nurse in obtaining informed consent. Do you believe that this is within the scope of nursing practice? Explain your answer.
6. Should nurses carry malpractice insurance? Explain your answer.
7. Should all patients have advance directives? Explain your answer.
8. Should employers be permitted to require nurses to work overtime if there is a shortage of registered nursing staff on a unit? Support your answer with evidence from the literature.

Ravens Cry

Raven’s Cry starts with a forward which is an interview with Robert Davidson and Margaret B. Blackman.  Why do you think Christie Harris did this?  Is it done to catch the reader’s interest?  Do you think she has a purpose for doing this?  Take a moment and look up Robert Davidson and Margaret B. Blackman on the internet.  What do different websites tell us about them.

The individuals in Raven’s Cry are different than the ones in All Souls.  Are any of them like people you know?  Do you think you could be friends with any of them if you knew them?  Think about this when you are reading.  This will help you remember what you are reading better.  It is another way for you to relate what you are reading to your own personal experiences.

Write your reaction to the reading.  Do you have an emotional reaction to this book?  Does it make you feel happy, sad, depressed, exhilarated?  Why?  Is the message the author wants to convey important?  Why or why not?  Do you think the author could have improved how he conveyed his message?  How?

If you have difficulty with the reading, remember the SQ3R method from chapter one in Reading for Thinking.

Vocabulary:

  • Write down three new vocabulary words. Write their definitions and use each one in a sentence.
  • Also, if possible, find the root and/or the prefix on the lists on pages 83-85 in Reading for Thinking. Write them down.

Answer the following questions on a separate page.  They should be typed.

 

  1. On page xv, Robert Davidson tells a story about two buckets of crabs. What is this story telling us about the Haida?  Does your own culture have a similar story?  Explain your answer.
  2. How did greed shape the initial relationship between whites (Europeans and Americans) and the Haida? Do you think this is the basis for a good relationship?
  3. Who are the thieves in Raven’s Cry? Give reasons to support your answer.
  4. How is Capon Roberts different than the other captains who are trading with the Haida?
  5. Why are Skawal and Gwaii gan.hling different according to Haida society? In other words, they are cousins, but they seem to be at different levels in society.  Why?
  6. Change is happening in the Haida villages in Raven’s Cry. What is causing all of the changes?  Which ones are positive, and which ones are negative?
  7. axiigang is important to Gwaii gang.hling; eventhough, he is not Gwaii gang.hling’s son. Why?

Cutback Management In The St. Croix: A RIF In The USDA

Case Study Analysis Guidelines
The case study method is a form of stimulation aimed at providing students with an understanding of the complexities relating to specific circumstances faced on the job. A case study should contain a complete description of an issue including all known events, people, and other impacting factors. It represents a situation/concern to be analyzed and resolved. Case studies should allow students to:
• Ask (or ask themselves) questions that help extract key information from a case
• Diagnose the case
• Define all the different issues involved in the case
• Make well thought out, fact-based decisions
• Formulate principles for handling future cases
In the field of public administration, the case study method is “an action plan” for resolving community issues. It provides clarity of purpose for what needs to be accomplished to effectively connect citizens to governance.
“Few public administrators expect ever to find a ‘one size fits all’ issue resolving approach for the vast range of circumstances/concerns that they are likely to encounter” (Public Administration – The Profession and the Practice).
Principles for Creating a Case Study Analysis
Each case should focus on a single issue/situation clearly delineated in one or two sentences, at most, and separated from paragraphs so as to easily determine what it is we are about to address.
A case study analysis must contain all the data necessary to arrive at a recommendation for resolution:
• Facts and events of the case
• Feelings, habits, attitudes, and expectations of the key stakeholders
• A clear description of the setting (time, place, and physical and social environment)
Steps in Creating a Case Study
1. Identify the Issue
o Must illustrate one or several specific principles.
o Will constitute the heart of the case study and thus influence all parts including how it is represented.
o Case studies are stories; they teach what stories teach – which happens to be what administrators most need to learn.
o Create an Outline of the Case Study
 Select facts and incidents that will be easily recognized and understood by participants.
 Organize these in a logical sequence. Remove any inflated or exaggerated components that might diminish the authenticity of the case.
2. Identify the Stakeholders
o Clearly identify each stakeholder in terms of his/her position.
o Write up the case study.
o Whether the case study is short or long, present a clear, concise, and coherent portrait of the stakeholders, events, and information.
o Use a writing style that is simple and direct – no long winded dissertations – one that speaks right to the reader.
o Occasionally include brief dialogues to create interest and allow readers to hear what the stakeholders in the case study have to say for themselves.
o In the case introduction, present your key stakeholders and provide information that clearly identifies him/her/them. Establish the relationship between the stakeholders and the issue under study. Include the organizational context.
o Recount events or incidents in chronological order.
o Occasionally use “flashbacks” to fill in gaps or heighten the sense of realism in the case. In certain case studies, you may have events overlap, occur simultaneously, or repeat themselves.
o In the concluding sentence or paragraph of the case study, point out the need for some form of action: a decision, a recommendation for resolution, a weighing of alternatives, or a combination of these.
o End with a bridge of some sort that leads from your case study presentation to participant discussion. Three types of conclusion are frequently used: 1) open-ended conclusion: the participants define the facts and problems, 2) directed conclusions: specific questions, tasks, or even a quiz following a case study, 3) closed conclusions: a textbook solution is provided at the end of the case study.
3. Identify Stakeholder Perspectives
o Understand that public administration is politics – not the “obvious politics” of high stakes electioneering and policy making, but the “other politics” of small-scale, behind the scenes problems solving: the nature of administrative casework follows accordingly.
o Stories don’t come ready-made but must be formed through selection and shaping from the flow of events: “Case synthesis precedes case analysis.”
o Keep your eye on the entire set of interacting decision-makers and interlocking policies: it’s there you are most likely to find any lurking problems of under-determination.
o It’s usually helpful to break out the goals being pursued, the variables that must be modified to move toward the goals, and the criteria to be borne in mind when pursuing the goals; it’s in those criteria that problems of over-determinationare likely to originate.
o Remember Mile’s Law: “Where one stands depends on where one sits.”
o Search for the paradigm of the case, but expect departures from the underlying pattern; explore the progression of circumstances.

Common Barriers to Team Collaboration

What were your initial reactions when you learned that this course consisted of an overarching team project? Did you have any concerns about working in a team?

In general, teamwork and collaboration is viewed as a stressful endeavor. In fact, many students and professionals feel that they can complete work better, faster, and quicker on their own. Many might even shy away from the opportunity to collaborate with others for fear of time constraints, miscommunication, conflicting views, and incivility among group members. However, the value of collaboration truly outshines any perceived negative barriers. In particular, collaboration gives educators the opportunity to enrich curriculum with the expertise and experiences of a group of professionals. It also pushes each educator to think “outside of the box” to incorporate innovative strategies, views, and learning opportunities. In fact, the days of one instructor developing a course are being quickly phased out by collaborative approaches. Many of today’s institutions require a panel of experts to creatively and critically collaborate on course development. As such, it is imperative that you begin to understand not only how to work effectively in a team but also how to overcome common barriers that can occur during the team collaboration process.

To prepare:
• Reflect on your team’s collaborative process. What barriers has your team experienced? How have you and others in your team worked to overcome these barriers? If you believe that your team has not experienced any barriers or difficulties, reflect on common barriers presented in this week’s Learning Resources.
• How could these strategies be used to help nurse educators? In addition,

Questions to be addressed in my paper:

1. Review the article “Overcoming Challenges to Collaboration: Nurse Educators’ Experiences in Curriculum Change” uploaded below. Consider the benefits of and barriers to team collaboration.
2. Select one barrier that has a significant influence on a team approach to curriculum development.
3. An explanation of a barrier that can significantly influence a team approach to curriculum development and why.
4. Search the Walden Library or in the internet to identify an article that presents strategies for overcoming your selected barrier. Describe two strategies you could implement to overcome this barrier, as well as how these strategies could help increase positive team collaboration.
5. How could these two strategies be used to help nurse educators?
6. Justify your response by citing references to this week’s Learning Resources and your selected article as appropriate.