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Case Study

You are the health and safety manager at ABC Manufacturing located at 123 Kingsway Industrial Drive, Indianapolis, IN 46235. On June 17th at 8:00 am you are called out on a health and safety incident in department 284 Machine Tooling and Operation. Upon arrival, it appears that Janice Wittle, a first shift employee who starts work at 6:30am, has cut off her pinky finger from her left hand. Last week there was a similar incident where Bob Thomas cut off the tip of his middle finger on the same machine. He was off from work for 7 days. Janice, born in 1969 on Aug. 1st, has already been taken to Mother Marys Healing Hospital located at 777 Golden Rod Road, Indianapolis, IN 46777 via ambulance and doctors are assessing the situation
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While the victim is being treated at the hospital, you start to interview the other employees to find out what exactly led up to Janices injury. One employee states that around 7:45 am, just before the accident, Janice was loading a new tray of parts into the machine. She looked away briefly as a loose part fell on the floor. Her finger slipped into the open blade and severed her finger. Upon inspection of the machine, you find that the guard for the rotating blade is missing. You immediately lock & tag out the machine pending further investigation.

When you receive the report from the hospital, you learn that Janice suffered a clean cut and was able to have her finger completely reattached. Doctors feel that she should have full mobility of the finger in three weeks, but they suggest that she stay home from work for at least four weeks for physical and mental healing and due to the medications she will be taking. She will be in the hospital for a week for monitoring and observation. The company has granted Janice 6 weeks of sick leave with pay. Janice was a 50-year-old employee who was hired 20 years ago when the plant opened in June.

QUESTIONS

1. Based on the information above, complete the attached OSHA forms (300, 300A, and 301).
2. How many total incidents (including this one) has happened in this department?
3. What is the root problem of this particular situation?
4. Should you go deeper into your investigation to find out why the guard was taken down? Why or why not?
5. What action should be so that this incident doesnt happen again?

Guidelines for Writing a Fiction Analysis

1.      Read “Writing a Research Essay on Fiction,” pgs. 608-639, keeping in mind exceptions  to be discussed in class.  You should also, as assigned on the syllabus, review “Major Stages in Thinking and Writing About Literature” beginning on page 19.

2.      Length: three to five pages.  You are to develop, not fill space.  Three to five pages is the minimum mandatory amount of development for a paper of this kind.

3.      Sources: You must incorporate two academic resources into your paper.  We will discuss in class how you might access these resources and which resources are appropriate.

4.      Choices: You must write about the work of a fiction writer who is listed on the course schedule, but you should not attempt to analyze a story we have already analyzed in class or one which we may at some point analyze in class. 

Hint: papers by students who have spent little time researching the work of the writer they’ve selected are apparent to good readers within the first paragraph most of the time.  Ethos begins low, and the grade on the paper will be below average.   If you choose the most conveniently accessed story, you’re only making your life more difficult.

5.      You may not use documents found on Google.  All sources must come from the library’s databases or a published book.  Google is commercially driven, not academically driven.  Google searches are not prioritized based on whether the story you’re reading was A) legally published or B) accurately published.  Google searches are also not prioritized based on whether the “critics” listed have any credibility.

6.      Analysis is not a summary of the story’s plot.  Summaries neither lend insight nor illuminate possible inferences, two purposes of analysis. 

7.      Analysis is not a reader reaction.  Reader reactions are just that: a reader’s emotional, casually considered response to a work.  Such responses range from, “This story sucked,” to, “He made me see the town vividly and I started to dislike the people because they seemed like busybodies.” 

Unlike responses, analysis will serve your audience.  Analysis adds to a reader’s experience of the story.  It creates and/or reveals social, political, or aesthetic purposes within the story that the casual reader most likely would have otherwise not noticed.   Informal analysis is what we do in class.  A paper is a formal analysis, which simply means you must carefully support all of your claims and you must clearly develop your main ideas and the overall thesis. 

An example of an early, working thesis for a relevant analysis would be, “William Faulkner’s ‘A Rose for Emily’ consolidates the point of view of the entire town into one voice to create tension between the intrusive town and the reclusive main character, Emily.”

8.      The story you are analyzing will not organize your paper for you.  Very often, novice writers will commit what we will refer to in this class as the Quote and Comment method, which is when the writer quotes or paraphrases a passage from the story being “analyzed,” comments on it, then quotes the next line and comments on it, and so on.  It’s nearly impossible to organize a paper into useful paragraphs using this method, and most writers who do employ it don’t even bother to organize.  The method is easy on the writer and hard on the reader.  Other than someone who’s being paid to grade the paper, few readers would endure more than the two paragraphs of this sort of essay.

9.      Students who write unsuccessful analyses have often skipped the unavoidable step of brainstorming.  This leads to unfocused, disorganized drafts.  Clear, focused, organized analyses are the result of several stages of drafting, the first of which is brainstorming, the second of which is outlining the ideas that might work.  The more time you spend refining your outline, the more manageable your paper will be during the drafting process.  You want to have a sense of how your paper should be organized and what your supporting details will be before you begin writing.  Otherwise, as many of you now know, you will find yourself frustrated and lost in your own paper.

Just as poetry creates poets and novels breed novelists, the best way to develop an understanding of a good analysis is to spend time reading good models.  Included here are the authors whose works are the subject of good student analyses and the first pages on which they appear in our text: William Faulkner, 113; Shirley Jackson, 155; James Joyce, 265; Eudora Welty, 326; Frank O’Connor, 377; Nathanial Hawthorn, 430; D.H. Lawrence, 493.  

Explosive Growth of Digital Crime and Fighting Digital Crime”  Please respond to the following:

• Identify at least two (2) factors that have led to the explosive growth of digital crime over the past a few decades. Next, describe the most common forms of digital crime, and give your opinion as to why those forms you described are so common. Provide a rationale for your response.

Details:

In 1,000-1,250 words, address the following:

1. What is Plato’s notion of justice and how does it conflict with that of Thrasymachus?
2. In light of this debate, what do you think is the purpose of right conduct? In other words, why be moral? Delineate at least two reasons why people should live by a moral code.
3. Support your claims with logical reasoning.

Use the GCU Library to locate three to five sources in support of your position.

Prepare this assignment according to the APA guidelines found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center. An abstract is not required.

This assignment uses a rubric. Please review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion.

You are required to submit this assignment to Turnitin. Please refer to the directions in the Student Success Center.

Genetic Drift and the Founder Effect

There are two types of genetic drift. Describe and give an example of both the bottle neck effect and the founder effect.

Your assignment should be 250-500 words in length.