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For this assignment, use your coursepack to review the case of “Half a Century of Supply Chain Management at Wal-Mart” by Mark and Johnson. In 2–4 double-spaced pages, analyze this case and address the following questions:

Are Wal-Mart supply chain capabilities still a source of competitive advantage? Why or why not?
How is Wal-Mart doing? How does it compare to its competitors?
As Johnnie Dobbs, Wal-Mart’s executive vice-president (EVP) of logistics, where would you spend your money or focus your energy?
Where do you see the opportunities for Wal-Mart in its global supply chain?

For this assignment, use your coursepack to review the case of “Half a Century of Supply Chain Management at Wal-Mart” by Mark and Johnson. In 2–4 double-spaced pages, analyze this case and address the following questions:

Are Wal-Mart supply chain capabilities still a source of competitive advantage? Why or why not?
How is Wal-Mart doing? How does it compare to its competitors?
As Johnnie Dobbs, Wal-Mart’s executive vice-president (EVP) of logistics, where would you spend your money or focus your energy?
Where do you see the opportunities for Wal-Mart in its global supply chain?

This assignment is worth up to 50 points and involves researching and writing an entry for the Webliography section of our course. The assignment references the following TCOs:

· TCO1 as it applies to cause-and-effect research in social psychology

· TCO 3 as it applies to the effects of a psychological disorder.

Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is an anxiety disorder that is caused by a person’s experiencing or observing an extremely psychologically troubling event involving real or threatened death or significant injury to self and/or others. There are many situations and sometimes predisposing personal mental conditions that may trigger the development of PTSD

Your task in this assignment is to use the Internet to find and describe at least one form of natural disaster as a cause of PTSD. Among natural disasters are hurricanes, earthquakes, tornadoes and tsunamis. You will be working with the independent variables of PTSD. Here is the basic causal proposition:

Xs (Causes of PTSD)—————-ÚY (Development of PTSD)

Independent variables————— ÚDependent variable

Process:

Using the Internet locate an article that includes a discussion of natural disasters as causes of PTSD;
Compose a summary of the contents of the article that includes the following information:
A general description of the contents of the article
A description of least two specific items from the article
Identification of the independent and dependent variable
Prepare your article for Webliography using one of the following processes:
write your descriptive text as a Word document that you copy and paste into Webliography OR
type your descriptive text straight into Webliography
To add your entry to Webliography, use this process:
click on Webliography in the gray/white bar in the blue space at the top of the course website – it is the last component on the right side of the bar
click on “Add New Entry”
type in the title of your entry and the URL
add your text
click on “Add Entry”

Note: You cannot edit your entry once you have submitted it. If you want to change your entry simply submit the new version. Your instructor will know to grade the newest article and will disregard the earlier version

Expectations:

Your entry will have a working URL that goes directly to the article and does not require drilling down (navigating) through layers of a website
You will write about a natural cause or causes of PTSD, NOT the symptoms of this disorder
Do not use an article that triggers advertising
A Webliography entry that is sufficiently informative requires about 150 words
Your entry is free of spelling and grammatical errors

Grading:

30 points for the informational quality of your entry
15 points for clear and orderly presentation of your content
points for freedom from spelling and grammar errors

For this assignment you will compose a well-written and thoughtful essay of 2-3 pages in length. Select and answer one of the questions provided below as your prompt.

Format & Expectations

Be sure you have a clear claim, that you take a position you want to defend using at least three well-supported reasons embodying logic, reason, and research. Give possible objections to your arguments, answer these objections and then draw your conclusion. Here is a resource to help you think about how to write an argument essay. This style of essay will reappear in many of your future courses in every major.

Essays should include internal citations and a Works Cited page following MLA Style.

Submission

Submit your essay as a Word document attachment within the Assignments area. BE SURE your name is included in the file name (i.e. Broyles_Phil 200-Essay 2.doc). Your essay file should be .doc, .docx, or .rtf

Questions:

Answer one of the questions below in a well-written, thoughtful, and supported essay that engages your course material, real-life or concrete examples and illustrations:

 

1. Agree or disagree with the statement, “the only proper context for sex given its nature is as part of a committed personal relation”.
2. Agree or disagree with the statement, “there is no objective right and wrong because people never agree about what is right and wrong”.
3. Psychological egoism is the view that all persons, without exception, seek their own self-interest. Argue for or against.

You have been hired by Nobody State University (NSU) as a consultant to help the university with how to increase their total revenue. The university has been struggling in recent years, so they have hired you to help them in their last attempt to find an appropriate solution so that the university can survive.

Raise or Lower Tuition? Suppose that, in an attempt to raise more revenue, Nobody State University increases its tuition.

Assess a raise in tuition and if it will necessarily result in more revenue.
Describe the conditions under which revenue will (a) rise, (b) fall, or (c) remain the same.
Explain the process of revenue at NSU, focusing on the relationship between the increased revenue from students enrolling at NSU despite the higher tuition and the lost revenue from possible lower enrollment.
If the true price elasticity were (-1.2), discuss what you would suggest the university do to expand revenue.
Using what you have learned in this course, explain how you would resolve this problem if you were the President of NSU.

In a three- to five-page paper (not including title and reference pages), provide subheadings or separate paragraphs for each of the questions listed to help focus your paper for the executives that have requested it. Support your paper with at least two academic sources from the Ashford Library.

You are required to format you paper according to APA style guidelines.

DO not forget to see the GRADING RUBIC attached.

Required Resources

Required Text

Read the following chapters from Microeconomics Principles and Policies:.

Chapter 4: Elasticity: The Measure of Responsiveness
Chapter 5: Demand and Consumer Choice
Chapter 6: Market Failure and Government Intervention Policies

For this benchmark, create a SIOP lesson plan that integrates students’ reading levels, cultural background, language objectives, content objectives, and best instructional practices for ELLs, as well as authentic assessment for a grade level and content area of your choice.

Use the SIOP lesson plan template, located on the College of Education site in the Student Success Center, and the “Class Profile” to complete this assignment.

From the “Class Profile,” specify a grade-level of your students. Choose a performance objective from the ELA Common Core State Standards to create the content objective for your lesson.

Select the English language proficiency standards based on the needs of your students. Consider applicable language acquisition stages of development in designing your lesson plan.

Integrate the following:

1. Lesson Preparation

2. Building Background

3. Comprehensible Input

4. Strategies

5. Interaction

6. Practice & Application

7. Lesson Delivery

8. Review & Assessment

APA format is not required, but solid academic writing is expected.

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.

Submit this assignment to your instructor in LoudCloud at the end of this topic.

You will also submit this assignment to Taskstream along with your Practicum/Field Experience Observation and Activity Log signed by the appropriate classroom teacher or interviewee at each location that you visit. Make your Taskstream submission after you have accumulated all of the required practicum/field experience hours for this course

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Research the current strategic options and opportunities for one of the following companies: Honda, Lowes, GEICO, Nike, Mcdonalds, Amazon, FEDEX, Disney, or Proctor and Gamble.

Write a 3-5 page paper in which the following is done:

1. Identify the company’s principal competitors and describe the kind of competition they currently present (traditional, potential, and oblique).

2. Generate at least three strategic options for the firm you have chosen.

3. With your strategic options defined, suggest at least three specific criteria to evaluate these options. Provide a rationale for each of the criteria.

4. Choose the best strategic option based on your evaluation criteria. (If your criteria require quantitative considerations, it is only necessary to make rough estimates. You do not need to make a detailed quantitative analysis.

Choose a topic for your research paper from the list that has been provided in Bb Learn under Course Content: All Instructions.

2. Papers must be a MINIMUM of ten pages long (8 full pages of text, one page for references and one cover page). No headings should be repeated on the eight pages of text – they belong on the cover page. Write a minimum of eight pages of text on that research topic.

3. Include a minimum of eight scholarly references (social science journals, law books; and/or websites that are sponsored by academics and/or professionals) and include a bibliography at the end of the paper using ASA formatting. One of those references can be from ONE of our texts; the other references must come from separate academic journal articles NOT news articles or random websites.

4. Do not include Wikipedia or other encyclopedia/dictionary usages among the ten references.

5. USE ASA WRITING STYLE ONLY; AN ASA FORMATTING GUIDE CAN BE FOUND IN Bb LEARN UNDER COURSE CONTENT: ALL INSTRUCTIONS OR ONLINE.

6. Double-Space, use 12 point normal font (Times New Roman only) and margins no greater than 1.25” on all sides. DO NOT MANIPULATE FONTS AND/OR FORMATTING TO SATISFY THE LENGTH CRITERIA (SHORT PAPERS WILL NOT EARN CREDIT). DO NOT INCLUDE LONG QUOTES OVER FORTY WORDS; LIMIT SHORT QUOTES TO ONLY 3-4

7. Papers will only be accepted in Bb Learn under “Assessments” as an attached file as either rich text format or Word document (do not save your documents as .pdf, .lnk, .wps, pages, or .odt – some of these will not open in Bb Learn). DO NOT SUBMIT IN Bb LEARN MESSAGES, NAU EMAIL, OR HARD COPY.

BUT PLEASE, DO ENJOY YOUR RESEARCH PROJECTS!

What techniques for determining requirements would seem to be most effective? Is that the case in all circumstances?

2. The process of decomposition in creating the WBS is used to refine work structure. At what level should we take that decomposition? Do you think that all detail should be available to all stakeholders? Why? Why not?

3. In the WBS, what value does the baseline serve? Why not just change the WBS to accommodate the current situation?

4. A project starts with a kickoff meeting. Why is this meeting so important and what outcomes should be expected?

5. Is it reasonable that there may be more than one kickoff meeting? If so, under what set of circumstances might that occur?

6. Handling project phase outs and transfers

7. Understanding participant’s roles

8. Enterprise project management methodologie