Assignment 4 will be comprised of six Journal Reflections. You will complete

THE VALUE OF FAIR TREATMENT IN THE WORKPLACE The Value of Fair

THE VALUE OF FAIR TREATMENT IN THE WORKPLACE

The Value of Fair Treatment in the Workplace

You have been hired as a management consultant by a large company to examine the company’s business decisions regarding employee protections. The applicable laws are federal anti-discrimination laws, federal health and safety laws, and employer firing practices related to the employment-at-will (EAW) doctrine.

In response to the three questions below, write a 5 page paper in which you do the following and make sure to use SWS writing format (sample provided):

Analyze, identify, and explain recent legislation, within the last 10 years, that helps to protect employees from discrimination in the workplace. Provide at least two federal legislative protections. Provide some insight when the federal legislation conflicts with the state.  

Explain the EAW doctrine and all exceptions to the doctrine. Look at the scenarios below and determine whether the decision to fire the employee is a smart one. Identify why or why not, and determine all the possible exceptions per the EAW doctrine that are, might be, or could be applicable if the employee sues for wrongful termination.

Brenda, a manager, started a blog on the company website for employee grievances. She noticed that a worker was protesting that no Asian American employees had gotten a raise in two years at the company. The worker also criticized how much the CEO made and how the CEO was “out of touch.” Brenda reprimanded the worker. The next day, the worker talked to fellow co-workers about forming a union. Brenda subsequently fired the worker.

Jason, a department supervisor, requests approval to fire his secretary, Alice. Alice, a devout Christian, has been putting Right-to-Life flyers in the employee breakroom. Alice is also taking time out to pray each day during the busiest time of the morning.

Brian, the head of the accounting department, refused to sign Lori’s leave request for jury duty. Lori is a tax attorney in his department. Brian wants to fire Lori for being absent without permission during their busiest time—tax season.

Peter has worked for the company for one year. He has a rare form of liver disease and works with chemicals that make his condition worse. Peter does not want to stop working, but his boss is not happy with his performance and wants to let him go.

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Assignment #4 Math 101 ON – Summer 2021 Jack has borrowed money

Assignment #4 Math 101 ON – Summer 2021

Jack has borrowed money from his financial institution and has agreed to pay $200 at the end of each month for six years. The bank charges interest on the loan at 6.6% compounded quarterly.

How much did Jack borrow? (3 marks)

How much is the cost of financing (The amount of interest to be paid)? (1 mark)

Helen contributed $500 at the end of every month for the past 5 years into an RRSP account, earning 3.8% p.a. compounded quarterly. If she leaves the accumulated contributions for another 4 years in the RRSP at the same rate of interest

How much will Helen have in total in her RRSP account? (3 marks)

How much did she contribute? (1 mark)

How much will be the interest? (1 mark)

Alvin has $16000 in his saving account. For how long can he withdraw $1600 be from the account at the end of every quarter starting now if interest is 6% compounded semi- annually? (3 marks)

Find the accumulated value of an annuity due of $500 payable at the beginning of every month for ten years at 3% p.a. compounded monthly. (3 marks)

Ava purchased a boat valued at $25,000 on an installment plan requiring equal monthly payment for four years. If the first payment is due on the date of purchase and interest is 2.4% p.a. compounded quarterly, what is the size of the monthly payment? (4 marks)

How much would you have to pay into an account at the beginning of every 3 months to accumulate $30000 in 6 years if interest is 5% p.a. compounded quarterly? (4 marks)

Rose has saved $160,000. If she decides to withdraw $2500 at the beginning of each month knowing the interest is 5% p.a. compounded semi-annually, for how long can she make withdrawals? (4 marks)

How much can be paid in scholarships at the end of each month if $6,500,000 is deposited in a trust fund with the interest rate of 2%p.a. compounded quarterly? (3 marks)

Extra practice material:

Tara bought a property by agreeing to make semi-annual payments of $2000 for twelve years. If the first payment is due on the date of purchase and interest if 4.8% p.a. compounded monthly, what is the purchase price of the property?

Jill borrowed $13,000 at 5.5% p.a. compounded semi-annually. If the loan is to be repaid in equal quarterly payments over 5 years and the first payment is due in 3 years after the date of the loan. What is the size of each quarterly payment?

The first quarterly payment of $850 in a six-year annuity will be paid 2.5 years from now. Based on a discount rate of 3.6% p.a. compounded monthly, what is the present value of the payments today?[supanova_question]

Read the case study below and answer the following questions. (2 pages including in-text citations and references in proper

Writing Assignment Help Read the case study below and answer the following questions. (2 pages including in-text citations and references in proper APA format). Your answers should demonstrate your understanding of the terms as well as your ability to apply them to the case of Baby K (given the limited facts provided.) 1)Discuss what makes this an ethical dilemma.
2)Discuss the implications of this study in terms of the moral principles. Respect for persons: Did the hospital/ physicians allow the parents to be autonomous in their decision-making? Do you see any elements of paternalism on behalf of the physicians? Beneficence: Did the hospital/ physicians act beneficently? Nonmaleficence: Did the hospital/ physicians consider nonmaleficence? Justice: Did the hospital act in a just way?

Baby K was born at Fairfax Hospital in Northern Virginia on October 13, 1992. Although her face was beautiful, the top of her head was flat. She had no brain The baby’s mother knew from the 16th week of her pregnancy that Baby K’s brain had not developed. Baby K had no cerebrum and no cerebellum, but she did have a normal brain stern. The mother was told that babies with “anencephaly”- from the Greek words for negative (an) and brain (enkephalos) – cannot see, hear, or feel anything no matter how long they live. Baby K would have no thoughts, and she would never achieve “personhood.” If she were born alive, her brain stem would prompt her heart to beat and her lungs to pump air in and out of her body. Baby K, like other babies with anencephaly, would be “born dying” but would not be technically brain dead. Anencephaly is one condition, perhaps the only one, that all doctors agree is futile to treat. The general consensus among medical, legal, and other experts is that heroic measures should not be used to keep such babies alive. But Baby K’s mother balked. She wanted to keep her baby alive no matter what the cost. She was motivated by a strong and sincerely held religious belief that “all life is precious” and that a higher being, rather than herself or the doctors or the law, should decide how long her baby would live. Baby K held on (most babies with anencephaly die within the first few days of their lives) and finally left the hospital when she was seven weeks old. No neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) would accept her, so she went to a nursing home.

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Read the case study below and answer the following questions. (2

Read the case study below and answer the following questions. (2 pages including in-text citations and references in proper APA format). Your answers should demonstrate your understanding of the terms as well as your ability to apply them to the case of Baby K (given the limited facts provided.) 1)Discuss what makes this an ethical dilemma.
2)Discuss the implications of this study in terms of the moral principles. Respect for persons: Did the hospital/ physicians allow the parents to be autonomous in their decision-making? Do you see any elements of paternalism on behalf of the physicians? Beneficence: Did the hospital/ physicians act beneficently? Nonmaleficence: Did the hospital/ physicians consider nonmaleficence? Justice: Did the hospital act in a just way?

Baby K was born at Fairfax Hospital in Northern Virginia on October 13, 1992. Although her face was beautiful, the top of her head was flat. She had no brain The baby’s mother knew from the 16th week of her pregnancy that Baby K’s brain had not developed. Baby K had no cerebrum and no cerebellum, but she did have a normal brain stern. The mother was told that babies with “anencephaly”- from the Greek words for negative (an) and brain (enkephalos) – cannot see, hear, or feel anything no matter how long they live. Baby K would have no thoughts, and she would never achieve “personhood.” If she were born alive, her brain stem would prompt her heart to beat and her lungs to pump air in and out of her body. Baby K, like other babies with anencephaly, would be “born dying” but would not be technically brain dead. Anencephaly is one condition, perhaps the only one, that all doctors agree is futile to treat. The general consensus among medical, legal, and other experts is that heroic measures should not be used to keep such babies alive. But Baby K’s mother balked. She wanted to keep her baby alive no matter what the cost. She was motivated by a strong and sincerely held religious belief that “all life is precious” and that a higher being, rather than herself or the doctors or the law, should decide how long her baby would live. Baby K held on (most babies with anencephaly die within the first few days of their lives) and finally left the hospital when she was seven weeks old. No neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) would accept her, so she went to a nursing home.

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BIO 110 DNA and Forensics Name:____________________ Assignment # 4—DNA Fingerprinting Part 1-

BIO 110 DNA and Forensics Name:____________________

Assignment # 4—DNA Fingerprinting

Part 1- Crime Scene DNA Collection

Even though we are all unique, most of our DNA is identical to another person’s DNA. However, specific regions of DNA vary highly between people – these regions are called polymorphic. The differences in these variable regions between individuals are known as polymorphisms (poly=many, morph=forms). Each individual inherits a unique combination of polymorphisms from their parents. DNA polymorphisms can be analyzed to give a DNA profile or DNA fingerprint.

Currently, in DNA profiling polymorphisms called short tandem repeats (STRs) are used to identify individuals. In order to do this, samples containing DNA must be collected from a crime scene or from an individual. In this activity we are going to look at how law enforcement officers collect samples.

In this assignment you will pretend to be a crime scene investigator and are called to a house where a crime has taken place. You will analyze the crime scene and collect samples from the crime scene in order to obtain DNA and analyze it for STR’s to identify the perpetrator. Look at the scene below and answer the following questions.

*Note-I added numbers 1-6 here to highlight specific items that ae not easily visualized in the picture. These are not the only 6 items you may use to answer the questions below.

Questions to Answer:

What do you think happened here?

Identify items (pieces of evidence) that would possibly contain DNA and explain why you think they would contain DNA. (Note you should list 5 items here).

Which item (piece of evidence) do you think is the most important and why?

Identify an item that would not possibly contain DNA and why.

Part 2#: DNA Profiling Basics

Most individuals of the same species, whether African elephants, mushrooms, white oak trees, or humans, have nearly identical DNA. But the DNA sequence at certain locations, or loci, throughout the genome varies among individual. These variations can be used to distinguish one individual from another of the same species. The process of analyzing these DNA variations for the purpose of identification is known as DNA profiling or genetic fingerprinting.

DNA profiling techniques have been used for a variety of reasons, including forensics science (matching a suspect’s or victim’s DNA with samples found at the scene of a crime or catastrophe), paternity testing, historical investigations, missing-person investigations, identifying victims of accidents and disasters, cataloging convicted offenders in database.

In this part of the assignment, you will learn how DNA collected from a crime scene is analyzed to determine a DNA finger print and potentially solve a crime. The regions of DNA that are used for DNA fingerprinting (to identify individuals) are repetitive DNA sequences. Repetitive DNA is the patterns of nucleic acids that occur in multiple copies in the genetic information of an organism. They make up major proportions of the nuclear DNA in humans and animals. There are several different types of repetitive DNA (tandem, STR, and VNTR). Tandem repeats are one of the major types of repetitive DNA that copy repetitive sequence units that lie adjacent to each other, forming a nucleotide block. VNTR (variable number tandem repeats) and STR (short tandem repeats) are two types of tandem repeats found in the eukaryotic genome. VNTR is a type of minisatellite DNA whereas STR is a type of microsatellite DNA. The main difference between VNTR and STR is that the repetitive unit of VNTR is 10-60 base pairs whereas the repetitive unit of STR is 2-6 base pairs. In this lab activity you will explore both STR and VNTR for the purpose of DNA profiling/genetic fingerprinting.

Introduction:

Now that you know the basics of DNA fingerprinting using STR’s, we will discuss how a crime scene analyst would identify these STRs to match perpetrators to crime scenes. After the crime scene analyst collects samples from a crime scene, they will extract the DNA from the nucleus of the cell and then amplify the STRs by a process called polymerase chain reaction (PCR). This technique will make a lot of copies of a particular STR in the crime scene DNA. Typically, crime scene analysts will use 13 STRs in crime scene DNA. This is because there is a 1 in 575 trillion chance that two individuals will be identical in the number of repeats, they have at all 13 STRs. By using 13 STRs for analysis they are able to accurately identify individuals.

Once PCR has been performed and all 13 of the crime scene DNA’s STRs have been amplified, scientists then use a technique called gel electrophoresis.

Gel electrophoresis is the process where DNA is separated by size in an agarose gel using an electric current. DNA is negatively charged and will migrate towards the positive side. The agarose gel is porous and acts as a sieve, larger DNA molecules will travel much slower through the gel, thus not migrating as far. While smaller DNA molecules will travel more quickly through the gel and travel further down the gel. This can create a very unique pattern of DNA for every individual. Scientists can analyze/compare the pattern of DNA from different sources using gel electrophoresis. If the patterns are the same, then they most likely came from the same source. This is called DNA fingerprinting. This is mostly used in crime investigation, where DNA found at crime scenes is compared to DNA from suspects or paternity testing where the father is in question. We will focus on crime scene analysis and paternity testing using gel electrophoresis in this activity.

Process of gel electrophoresis. Source: https://whatisdna.net/wiki/what-is-gel-electrophoresis/

Now you will analyze the STRs from the DNA that was collected from the crime scene and amplified by PCR and separated by gel electrophoresis. Look at the gel below. Each black rectangle represents an STR. In this case, we used 9 different STRs. Match up the size of the STRs from the crime scene DNA with those of the 4 possible suspects for the crime.

QUESTIONS

Which suspect committed the crime? ________________________

Explain how you determined this based on the STRs and the gel electrophoresis results.

DNA fingerprinting can also be used to analyze paternity and the relationship between individuals. To determine the genetic relationship between individuals’ samples of DNA from the mother, child/children in question, and the potential fathers are obtained. These samples are used to create DNA fingerprints and analysis allow scientists to determine the familial relationship between the individuals.

In this scenario, a new mother is unsure who is the biological father of her infant girl. The mother, infant, and two possible fathers donate DNA samples, and STR analysis is performed. Analyze the DNA pattern obtain below to identify the father of the infant.

Questions to Answer:

Which male is the biological father? How do you know?

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