December 2020

Traditional and Contribution Format Income Statements The Alpine House, Inc., is a large retailer of snow skis. The company assembled the information shown below for the quarter ended March 31: Required: 1. Prepare a traditional income statement for the quarter ended March 31. 2. Prepare a contribution format income statement for the quarter ended March […]

If 180 degrees<> Draw the Haworth or Chair Haworth structures of the following disaccharides: (a) α-D-glucopyranosyl-(1,4)-β, D-galactopyranose (b) β,D-galactopyranosyl-(1,4)-α-D-glucopyranose (c) β-D-glucopyranosyl-(1,4)-α,D-galactopyranose. Identify all anomeric carbons and hemiacetal, acetal, hemiketal, and ketal linkages.

1. In your field or work experience, what policies have influenced how you practice? How have these policies benefitted or constrained your work? 2. Why is language so important in working with diverse clients and constituencies? 3. Can you address issues of social justice and inequality without engaging in macro practice? Why or why not?

Over the years, as this CPS worker dealt with similar cases, he kept a running list of the kinds of dilemmas, frustrations, and contradictions he and his colleagues regularly faced. These are excerpts from his list: 1. Abused and neglected children desperately need to be loved and nurtured in order to develop into healthy teens and

1. A disproportionately high percentage of lower socioeconomic status teens get pregnant and drop out of high school, go on welfare, parent poorly, and recycle many of their problems to the next generation. In this case, Cindy is a very likely victim. These issues focus on a population. How can we interrupt this pattern? Can we develop some

And what about parents like Stan and Sarah? They both appear to be from a culture that doesn’t share mainstream values about parenting and taking responsibility for a family. True, they are breaking the law and need to be held accountable, but that approach alone has rarely proven effective in improving parenting skills. Is there

Just as the CPS worker had kept a running list of the kinds of dilemmas he faced through the years, the case manager had kept a list of her dilemmas as well. In preparation for the Area Agency on Aging public hearing, she had updated the list in hopes something could be done. Excerpts from

1. So many of the older people I see have had problems all their lives. You can almost tell what’s going to happen in their old age by what happens to them as they go through life. Drug and alcohol problems only seem to get worse. Abusive situations escalate. If someone had intervened early when they

1. I’m learning some revealing things about case management. Case managers attempt to coordinate what is really a nonsystem of services. If we had a real system, we wouldn’t need to pay people like me and we could put those resources toward client services. We are investing a lot in institutionalizing case management when it often

The Carbon Cycle and Mankind   We have seen that plants sequester large sums of carbon in themselves.  They are able to do this since, on average, photosynthesis produces more sugar than what is need by the plant during its respiration phase.  As long as the plant is alive, it will continue to take carbon