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Review Exercise 10-8 on pages 452-453 of the text, and compute the material and labor variances as required. Make sure to show your calculations. Also, prepare a brief explanation of the possible causes of each variance. What actions can management take to minimize future variances?

Exercise 10-8

Dawson Toys, Ltd., produces a toy called the Maze. The company has recently established a standard cost system to help control costs and has established the following standards for the Maze toy: During July, the company produced 3,000 Maze toys. Production data for the month on the toy follow: Direct materials: 25,000 microns were purchased at a cost of $0.48 per micron. 5,000 of these microns were still in inventory at the end of the month. Direct labor: 4,000 direct labor-hours were worked at a cost of $36,000. Required: Compute the following variances for July: The materials price and quantity variances. The labor rate and efficiency variances. Prepare a brief explanation of the possible causes of each variance.

Locate a minimum of three articles on healthcare reform and how it has impacted quality, economics, and patient safety on healthcare services in the U.S. Describe the influence of each of these factors on the U.S. healthcare system and how healthcare is delivered to communities. Compare and contrast your findings. What is the same and what is different?

Your paper should meet the following requirements:

• Be three to four pages in length, not including the cover or reference pages
• Be formatted according to the CSU-Global Guide to Writing and APA Requirements
• A minimum of four references with associated in-text citations. Two of these sources may be from the class readings, textbook, or lectures, but two must be external. The CSU-Global Library is a good place to find these references.
• Use headings to organize the content in your work.

• I.Keynote Speech: Securing Our 21^st Century Future: The Role of Diversity in Higher Education

Congratulations! You have just been asked to give a keynote speech to the upcoming higher education conference in your state. The conference chair has asked you to talk about the role of diversity, multiculturalism, and social justice in higher education and on our campuses, especially given the current political climate not just in the U.S., but in a number of other countries and locales around the globe. As a starting place, she has provided you with this quotation from Daryl Smith’s book:

Diversity is a powerful agent of change. Indeed, diversity is an imperative that must be embraced if colleges and universities are to be successful in a pluralistic and interconnected world. While technology has long been recognized as a transformative element of society, the dynamics of diversity are reshaping the world and its institutions with equal impact. Like technology, diversity offers significant opportunities to fulfill the mission of higher education and to serve institutional excellence, albeit in new ways. The question is not whether we want diversity or whether we should accommodate diversity, for diversity is clearly our present and our future. Rather, it is time to move beyond old questions and to ask instead how we can build diversity into the center of higher education, where it can serve as a powerful facilitator of institutional mission and societal purpose.

[Smith, D. (2015). Diversity’s promise for higher education (2^nd ed.). Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.]

For this assignment, you will write and deliver a 5-7 minute speech entitled “Securing Our 21^st Century Future: The Role of Diversity in Higher Education” addressing what you see as the need for, and the role of, diversity, multiculturalism, and social justice in higher education and on our campuses. You should use all available information you have been learning from our class, plus any other outside resources you deem appropriate to craft your speech. You will need to submit your actual speech to me in addition to delivering your speech. You may either do your speech in class, or my preference is that you do a high quality video, upload it to YouTube, and then share the link with the class. You will need to deliver/upload your speech no later than April 21.

Your speech will be evaluated according to the following criteria:

Use of Time: the speech is balanced and an appropriate amount of attention is given to each major point or content area; the presentation makes full use of the time allocated – it does not seem rushed or superficially drawn out, and does not end too early or go past the designated ending time.

Delivery: information is presented in a motivating manner and seems designed to pique the interest of the audience.

Content: the topic areas of the speech are covered comprehensively and in appropriate depth and detail — but not in an overindulgent manner; the presentation stays coherently centered on the primary points being made.

Critical Thinking: the speech demonstrates critical thinking skills appropriate to a graduate-level class; statements of opinion are reinforced by empirical evidence or outside research.

Proactive Bias: the focus of the speech is on application of the material as opposed to just describing, summarizing or critiquing what is covered.

1. Introduction with pertinent site information (e.g. type of setting, context, pediatric client population, etc.)

1. Client information and his/her situation (e.g. initials; age; dates of onset and referral; reason for OT referral; prior health status; prior occupational performance/ participation status and patterns; contextual information). TO PRESERVE CLIENT CONFIDIENTIALITY, AVOID USING THE CHILD’S ACTUAL INITIALS.
2. A brief summary of the child’s OT-related problems, goals, evaluations, interventions and intervention rationales. Concisely include assessment tools/ methods that were used, treatment activities and their associated goals (summarized), and the therapeutic relationship with the child and his/her family. Include relevant cultural information (including language issues if relevant).
3. OT Theories/ Frames of Reference (FOR) – including one psychosocial theory or FOR – as associated with the client’s current OT interventions and the related intervention rationales. Include a brief statement about the expected impacts of incorporating these theories or FORs. Name the originator(s) of any theory you mention, with no need to cite and reference any sources.
4. The child’s and family’s perception of his/her illness and psychosocial limitations (see Pediatric Case Study Template). Information can be gleaned from observations of therapist-child interactions (and therapist-family interactions, if applicable), consultation with the treating therapist(s), and/or your informal interview of the child and/or family member(s) (when feasible and appropriate).
5. The family’s/ child’s social network and social interaction opportunities; the child’s favorite activities; his/her most challenging occupationally-based activities and why they are difficult; related issues that will impact post-discharge expectations for this child’s life situation.
6. The length, structure and funding for OT services for this child at the facility; the child’s and family’s social support network after discharge; the child’s discharge environment including accessibility barriers, if applicable; changes to the discharge environment recommended by the client’s current OT, if applicable.
7. A brief summary that includes your judgments regarding the value of this case study for informing OT practice. Also include concise suggestions for improving OT services for this child (e.g. to make them more culturally sensitive).