Category: Writing

Write a 7-9 page paper in which you further define your vision, analyze the requirements needed for achieving your vision, and create an action plan to achieve your goals.
Complete the following in the Your Career in Psychology [DOCX] template:
Application of Vision.Update an inspiring description of your future career vision as a psychology practitioner-scholar.
Explain the benefits of becoming a practitioner-scholar in the field of psychology and explain the importance and relevance of your vision and goals to your personal and professional aspirations.
Goals.Discuss personally meaningful and relevant educational, career, and life goals to achieve your vision.
Further discuss three specific goals that are measurable and achievable and include timed steps to leverage current competencies and overcome skill gaps and potential barriers.
Influence of Research and Resources.Explain how reading the course resources, journal articles, and Career Center resources has affected your vision.
Discuss why it is important to look for evidence-based literature to support your studies, including the types of articles you may need to find beyond peer-reviewed articles, to support your work in the field.
Value of Networking and the Professional Interview.Discuss how developing and maintaining supportive professional relationships will contribute to your overall academic and career success.
Include information on what you learned from conducting a professional interview.
Specialization-Specific Professional Competencies.Describe the knowledge, skills, and attitudes necessary for success in your career path.
Include common skills critical to success within psychology, such as those related to critical thinking, decision making, problem solving, evidence-based practices, cultural competence, and conflict resolution.
Include ethical competencies related to your specific profession.
Include any key responsibilities associated with positions related to your future career.
Critical Thinking.Reflect on the importance of critical thinking and analyze the importance of critical thinking and effective decision making as a psychologist, with reference to real or hypothetical examples.
Cultural Competence.Discuss methods and techniques you will use now and throughout your program to establish cultural competence as it relates to your specialization and the future population you would like to work with.
Ethical Competencies.Discuss the ethical competencies related to your profession. Analyze the functions, responsibilities, and ethics required of a professional practitioner in a specialized area of psychology, integrating comprehensive knowledge of relevant professional standards and requirements.
Specialization-Specific Professional Requirements.Outline the requirements for your future career including high-level Capella program and specialization requirements, credentialing, certification, licensure, accreditation practices and standards, additional training, et cetera.
Action Plan.Create and discuss a detailed action plan to achieve career goals that includes all the required elements including the start-to-end duration of the goal or milestone, the goal or milestone being addressed, and the skill and experience gains from this goal or milestone.
Conclusion.Explain the benefits of becoming a practitioner-scholar in the field of psychology and explain the importance and relevance of your vision and goals to your personal and professional aspirations. Summarize the entire paper from the abstract to the action plan.
Review the SMART Goals presentation, Career Development Center resources, and search the Capella University Library for additional reflective exercises and inspiring ideas about transforming your vision into an action plan.

Unit 8 Assignment: Data Storage Solutions and Data Protection
Outcomes addressed in this activity:
Unit Outcomes:
Evaluate data storage solutions available for businesses, including DAS, SAN, and NAS.
Examine data protection and backup.
Evaluate cloud storage options.
Course Outcomes addressed in this assignment:
IT332-5: Recommend data storage and data protection technology for a computer system.
GEL-6.02: Incorporate outside research into an original work appropriately.
Purpose
In this assignment, you will create a presentation explaining, among other topics, the diverse backup solutions and storage redundancy concepts, devices, and related technologies. You will be able to identify and recommend to the chief technology officer of Widgets, Inc., the best storage device, and level of redundancy (e.g., RAID) solution. Of special interest is the requirement for data protection, accessibility, and accuracy.
Assignment Instructions
The chief technology officer of Widgets, Inc. wants to protect the company’s data currently stored on the main data server. She wants a backup and storage solution that provides for high availability for data access, redundant storage over the network, and the fastest restoration time possible should a loss take place.
Based on your assigned reading and supplemental research, provide a proposed solution for the CTO of Widgets, Inc. Include a discussion of various backup and redundancy solutions. Be sure to include in your presentation the following: RAID, NAS, DAS, data protection, redundancy, and high availability.
Create a PowerPoint presentation explaining the backup and redundancy concepts, and how they compare to or work with each other, and providing a backup/redundancy solution for the CTO of Widgets, Inc.
You want the presentation to be persuasive and convince the chief technology officer to accept your proposal. Use the notes section of the PowerPoint slides to provide speaking and explanatory content that is more extensive than the slide highlights. The slides themselves should contain graphics, charts, images, and limited text bullet points.
Make sure your presentation addresses the following:
Presentation should include an introduction, conclusion, and list of references in APA format.
It should present a backup storage and redundancy solution that provides for high availability for data access, redundant storage over the network, and the fastest restoration time possible should a loss take place.
The presentation should be 8–10 slides.
Presentation should highlight the important elements found in your research using paraphrasing, summary, or quoting. Ideas that are not common knowledge or your own original thoughts must be properly cited in APA style.
Graphics (charts, tables, and other graphic elements) should be used to emphasize critical and key aspects of the research.
The presentation should contain more detailed notes than what is shown on the presentation slide.
Minimum concepts to cover and explain in the presentation are high availability, RAID, NAS, and DAS.
The presentation must not include any confidential information, and must properly acknowledge any proprietary information, trade names, and trademarks.
Assignment Requirements
Your presentation should be 8–10 slides in length. Be sure to use the appropriate APA format and cite your textbook or other sources that you used in your presentation.

Please do NOT use any AI tools, in text citations from plays are needed as well. Please see instructions attached, thank you!

Congratulations on making it this far on your Professional Writing Assignment. I recommend a review of the complete prompt posted in the M11 Overview. You may find my examples of the assignment’s components (intro, body paragraphs, etc.) in the subsequent overview pages. Please use this word doc template
. The Turnitin Framework will not allow me to view Google docs, so I am asking that you copy and paste your final drafts into the word doc template and submit that, or make a PDF of your work in the template and submit the PDF. If you skip this step and submit a Google doc, or if you don’t use the template in a word doc, I will consider the work a late submission and ask you to resubmit it as a templated word doc or PDF.
Requirements:
1). Your investigation will be a minimum of seven full-pages. Keep in mind, this is just the minimum, and minimum and marginal efforts earn minimum and marginal scores. 2). You must interview at least three living people who can speak with experience about your position/job/project (this may occur via phone, video conference or in person). 3). You must do additional research from textual resources for introductory context and analysis purposes. 4). You will compare and contrast the information you collect in the analysis paragraph and answer the central question (and three sub-questions) posed at the beginning of your paper. 5). The conclusion will be a thoughtful and detailed strategy to obtain the goal/job/status mentioned in the central question, or a set of thoughtful and detailed mitigations, a detailed reconsideration or detailed plan to pivot. 6) Finally, at the end of your essay, you’ll list your interview subjects and their contact information.
Grading:
Each of the components are valued at a full letter grade or the corresponding number of points. For example, a lack of context (introductory material in this instance) will drop a final score by 20 points (the point total for the Professional Writing Assignment is 200 points). Partial points may be awarded to various degrees of success. The components are: 1). Context (introductory material) 2). Evaluation (body paragraphs) 3). Analysis in the analysis paragraph 4.) Argumentation (the conclusion paragraph) and 5). Supporting documentation in the form of contact information for your three interview subjects. A lack of contact information will likewise drop a score by 20 points.
Here are some of the discussion board prompts and my responses 
#1 Prompt: This discussion has two steps. First, tell your group mates about your planned career by answering the following questions where appropriate (be specific and detailed so that your group mates really understand the job): a) What kind of education, training or development is required? b) What are the actual day-to-day duties? c) How might this contrast with the perception of the job? d) Is there a specialty within this career that you want to follow (if so what is it?)? e) What are the personal risks? f) Do workers tend to do this job for a long or short period of time? g) What is the salary range and how is one paid (commissions, salary, hourly, etc.) h) Are there personal costs/physical tolls? i) Who does this job serve and might there be other benefits to society?
My response: I’m a general business major at SDSU, but I am considering switching to business finance. While both have similar degrees, I’m looking to pursue becoming a financial advisor when I’m older, and a finance degree will improve my qualifications for the job. To become a financial advisor, the usual requirement is to have a bachelor’s degree in finance, economics, or business. A CFP (Certified Financial Planner) or a CFA (Chartered Financial Analysis) certification will significantly improve your qualifications for the job. A financial advisor’s day-to-day duties consist of meeting with clients to help them make investments, taxes, and insurance decisions. A regular duty is to keep track of their client’s financial accounts to ensure they are going on the course of the financial plan. While the job is usually perceived as recommending stocks and ETFs to clients that they believe have high growth potential, communication is an essential key to being a good advisor. There is a lot of creating courses behind the scenes for people depending on their income, which takes time and analysis. Most financial advisors are paid a commission-based salary, which can lead to them not having a stable income if their investment advice isn’t performing well. Being in this branch of work, there is high growth potential for salary, the more clients you have, the more experienced you are, and if you have evidence showing major success for your previous clients, theirs potential for very high pay. Indeed.com says that the average income for financial advisors ranges from $49,000-$200,000 per year. This job mainly serves individuals, families, and sometimes businesses.
#2: Prompt: Please consider all of the information and context you have gathered about your chosen profession, job or career. Line up the versions of the lead you crafted in class, or for your journal entry, and choose one. Use this to begin completing the steps to your introduction listed below. Post your completed introduction to your discussion board group.
My response: A financial advisor’s path goes past simple math, it involves dedication to comprehending and influencing financial stories for people’s lives. With the shift in the job from typical stockbrokers in the beginning, to all-inclusive financial counselors, there is a huge need for competent and flexible advisors. Due to the increasing complexity of the path of work and the need for advisers to be knowledgeable about investments, taxes, insurance, and estate planning, having a finance degree and certifications such as CFP or CFA are pretty much necessities to get into this line of work. My passion for this line of work comes from my desire to help others reach their life objectives and help them along with their financial journeys. But this enthusiasm is softened with guidance and understanding of the risks involved. Balancing risk and reward, analyzing market trends, and making sound decisions are all very important components of the work that are part of ongoing learning, vigilance, and adaptation. Regulatory developments necessitate advisers having to stay up to date on the newest legislation and compliance laws to ensure they work safely and successfully. Although technological improvements provide tools to improve efficiency and client care, they may pose a risk if advisers do not accept and adapt to the new technologies. Furthermore, the invention of robo-advisors has created a new competitive environment, raising concerns about the future role of human advisors and the question of will the extra cost be worth the value they provide to customers. In a rapidly evolving world, the issue arises: how can financial advisers adapt to changing industry dynamics, keep client trust in the face of technological disruption, and continue to provide individualized, value-added services that robots won’t be able to provide? To answer this topic, I intend to research industry experts, experienced financial advisors, and technological professionals point of view on this question.
#3: Prompt: Please craft your first body paragraph following the steps below.
1)    Introduce your interview subject, their background, and expertise.
2)    Mention why you wanted to talk to this person
3)    State the question you wanted answered
4)    Deliver their quote or answer
5)    Give context or explain or deepen the quote
6)    Explain your thinking about this response, and how it might add to, alter, modify or detract from your central question, through-line, or expectations of the job.
My response: One of the subjects that I’ll be interviewing is Eric Thompson, a highly regarded financial advisor and proud alumni of Delta Sigma Phi, my fraternity. Eric started in the business world with a job at J.P. Morgan after earning his master’s degree in business finance from San Diego State University. He got a regular job at the company because of how well he did in his internship and has continued to do well there. Eric is now the Chief Investment Officer at Fidelity Investments. He is a specialist in managing risk and ensuring that portfolios are well-diversified. High-net-worth people and businesses trust him because he knows a lot about how markets work and wants his clients to succeed. Eric is still active in the fraternity’s alumni network and often helps current members learn about money and gives them advice. He was more than happy to let me interview him. My question to him was how the process of finding a job was, and how he found his connections so quickly after being hired. Finding a job is definitely super competitive, but you can also get ahead by using the right tools and making the right contacts. For me, the journey started obviously with a solid education and internships that gave me some insight on what to look forward to as an advisor. Making connections was very important for my job search. To make these connections, I took part in events for college graduates, seminars for professionals in my field, and online forums for finance experts. These sites not only kept me up to date on job openings, but they also let me meet and talk with people that ended up becoming my clients.
Those are some prompts to help you, two of the interviewees are made up, James porter and Eric Thompson, but here are all of the ‘interviews’ I got
The subject that I chose for the interview is my uncle, Chad Wilson. Mr. Wilson has pursued a career in the financial advisory world after attending and graduating with a master’s from Florida State University. He then went on to do an internship with Merill. After interning there, he was offered a full-time position after graduation and has grown through the rank of being loyal to the Merill company throughout his career. His position today is classified as senior Financial Advisor, and he specializes in investments and financial budgeting. My question to him was what advice would you give to someone just starting out in the field? To which he responded, As someone who has managed to earn an income well enough to live off of as a financial advisor, I believe the most important thing for beginners is to take advantage of all opportunities to learn, especially in the early stages of their work. Starting out with a job, like the one I had at Merrill, can help you learn a lot about how the industry works and how people behave in it. It’s important to take the lead during these times—ask questions, look for comments, and offer to help with different projects. Not only does this help you understand more, but it shows that you are dedicated which your employers will really appreciate. Once you have a full-time job, it’s important to keep going in the same direction. Keep up with changes and trends by taking part in ongoing education and licensing programs. You can make a name for yourself and give clients something they won’t find anywhere else by specializing in things like taxes because a lot of advisors focus on investment planning.
My second subject, my father’s personal advisor, is James Porter, an experienced financial advisor who has worked with people and families for over twenty years to help them handle their money and plan for retirement. Mr. Porter got his master’s degree in Finance from the University of Michigan. He started in the business world with a distinguished internship at Goldman Sachs. This helped set the stage for his future career. After finishing his internship, he was hired immediately for a full-time job, and his hard work and knowledge have helped him move up the ranks since then. 
The last subject I’ll be interviewing is Eric Thompson, a highly regarded financial advisor and proud alumni of Delta Sigma Phi, my fraternity. Eric started in the business world with a job at J.P. Morgan after earning his master’s degree in business finance from San Diego State University. He got a regular job at the company because of how well he did in his internship and has continued to do well there. Eric is now the Chief Investment Officer at Fidelity Investments. He is a specialist in managing risk and ensuring that portfolios are well-diversified. High-net-worth people and businesses trust him because he knows a lot about how markets work and wants his clients to succeed. Eric is still active in the fraternity’s alumni network and often helps current members learn about money and gives them advice. He was more than happy to let me interview him.
If you want any other information please be sure to let me know you can text or call me at 6195134489
And then to include the contact info for them here’s phone numbers to associate with them
James Porter (971)808-8157
Eric Thompson (510)685-4978
Chad Whilson (619)513-4489

Use Scholarly Articles to prove that the short story should fall into the genre “Dystopian Liturature”. 
Don’t forget that you are trying to prove that the short story fits into a certain genre. Choose articles that list the elements of the genre since those will be discussed in your body paragraphs in order to prove your point.
Attahced are 2 of the needed 3 sources needed. 

Choose one of the following topics and write an essay with a clear thesis and focused paragraphs that further your thesis. You do not have to consult secondary sources for this assignment; however, you must provide textual support from your primary text(s) to develop your ideas and assertions. The length requirement is 4 to 5 pages. All papers should be typed in 10 or 12 Courier/Times New Roman/Times font with at least one-inch margins. You are to use the MLA style for documentation. All work should have a cover page that includes your name, an original title, the date, and the course number.
Use Phillis Wheatley, Olaudah Equiano, David Walker, Harriet Jacobs, Omar ibn Said, Frederick Douglass, Sojourner Truth, or Faith Ringgold.

Find a relevant news article/paper concerning someone you feel is an exemplar/role model/hero in terms of living a successful life.
2) Post a hyperlink to the news article/paper.
3) Write at approximately 250 words summarizing the article and analyzing the article by explaining what qualities this person possesses that you admire and respect. What is it about the actions they have chosen to take in their own life that resonates with you? What actions and choices could you begin to take in your own life to emulate this individuals success in life? As always, consider specific ways that the information you’ve gained from the article can be practically applied to your own life.

This is the fifth of a series of podcasts you will summarize as a graded assignment (others are also available for extra credit). You may choose to summarize one of two options: one is on climate anxiety and the other is on how natural selection has made it harder to fight the malaria mosquito, especially in light of climate change.
Your summary should be between 300 and 500 words (1-1.5 pages, 1.5 spaced, Times New Roman) and should include the main points you hear in this podcast. Please include:
1) Three key points;
2) Something that is a novelty for you;
3) The short, take-home message;
3) Your personal take on this podcast. Podcast link option 1: Feeling Doomed? How to Tackle Climate Anxiety | How to Save a Planet https://open.spotify.com/episode/0cvaoutNPO1vJGEeR…
Podcast link option 2: Why Our Brains Don’t Care About Climate Change Enough | The Happiness Lab
Option 1 summary: https://open.spotify.com/episode/0cvaoutNPO1vJGEeR…
“We’re all doomed.” If you’ve ever thought this to yourself while looking down at the remnants of your paper straw floating in your plastic coffee cup (just me?), you may be experiencing climate anxiety. Climate feelings, like anxiety and grief, are on the rise all over the world. And researcher Britt Wray started feeling them herself when she was newly married and started thinking about having children. So she started to study these feelings to learn more about the roots of her climate anxiety, how common it was, and why learning to cope with it is an important step towards taking climate action.

The paper will be five typewritten pages and can be on a topic of your choice as it relates to the fire service and fire prevention. For example, an idea might be the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in 1911, the Beverly Hills Supper Club fire in 1977, the General Slocum steamship fire in 1904, the Cocoanut Grove nightclub fire in 1942, or the munitions ships and depot explosion in Port Chicago in 1944. These are just a few suggestions; the choice is yours. The paper should outline the incident, the fire codes/standards in place at the time and what, if any, changes came about following the events.

The development of nursing knowledge is an ongoing process. Discuss the case for the ongoing development and use of nursing grand theories and conversely, make a case for the obsolescence of nursing grand theories for today’s practice and research.
Please include 400 words in your initial post with two scholarly articles  by Wednesday midnight and 200 words in two answers to your peers by Saturday midnight.