Category: Essays

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I need short essays for these questions in 2 hours

What was so “great” about Alexander the Great?
What was the significance of the advent of agriculture?
Compare and contrast Mesopotamian and Egyptian civilizations. What were five major similarities and five major differences? Why do you believe they were different?
Describe Persian civilization around 500 BCE. How did the Persian Empire differ from its predecessors?
How did war affect Greek civilization?
What were the major developments of the Greek Archaic Age?
What led to the fall of the Roman Republic?
How did the Roman state develop after Augustus

omplete a two to three page (excluding title and reference pages) report on the progress you have made to date on your Senior Project. You must use a minimum of three scholarly sources. Your report, and any citations used, must be in APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center. Your progress report should cover the following:

Topic: Identify the topic that you have selected for your Senior Project and provide a brief explanation for why you have chosen to address this topic *This may be copied from the Week Two assignment if evaluated as Distinguished Performance. Otherwise, make adjustments per Week Two feedback.
Organization Specific Rationale: Provide a brief overview of the health care organization that you have selected for your Senior Project including a summary of the challenges and/or opportunities impacting the balance between health care costs, quality, and access to services that the organization is currently facing. The challenges and/or opportunities should directly relate to your rationale for why you have chosen your topic (i.e., training program) to help the organizational leaders manage this challenge/opportunity. Challenges and/or opportunities should be grounded in the research (e.g., web-based resources, electronic articles, or personal interviews). The more informed you are, the better prepared you will be to complete your Senior Project.
Training: Identify the audience for your training program and provide a brief outline of the topics it will address. Include a minimum of three to five learning outcomes that are targeted for your identified audience. Specifically, what do you want your audience to know and/or be able to do after they have completed training? How does this training program align with the overall challenges and/or opportunities that the organization is facing? Overall, how will the training program benefit the organization?

Examine Comparator Group Companies

Refer to the SEC Form DEF14A Annual Proxy Statement obtained during Unit 1, identifying the company’s comparator group.

Visit each of the companies’ Investor Relations Web sites. Download and review copies of their most recent SEC Form DEF15A, Proxy Statement, focusing on Compensation Philosophy, Executive Compensation, the Report of the Compensation Committee, and compensation plans up for vote or ratification by shareholders, if any.

Step 2: Cybrary Research and Review of Comparator Group Companies

Using the Cybrary databases below, review business research reports on the comparator companies.

Hoovers Pro (D&B):A database of over 14,000 capsules offers profiles of individual companies, with links to news, lists, stock quotes and 4,000 full profiles. Searchable by company name, individual surnames, keywords, and ticker symbols. Full Text.
First Research (D&B):First Research is an industry intelligence company, offering its reports through the Hoover’s platform. Industry intelligence available includes: First Research Industry Profiles that cover more than 600 industry segments; First Research Industry Profiles include industry overviews, which provide a brief summary of the key players and outline the landscape of an industry; and call prep questions designed to help users engage prospects and clients in discussions about their business issues and challenges.
Business Source Complete (EBSCO): Business Source Complete offers full text coverage in all disciplines of business, including marketing, management, accounting, finance and economics. Additional full text, non-journal content includes market research reports, industry reports, country reports, company profiles and SWOT analyses.

Media and Public Relations Databases

Using the Cybrary databases below, search for stories and articles on the company relating to strategic human resources topics (e.g., employee or labor relations, human capital management, compensation and benefits, diversity, affirmative action, outsourcing, downsizing, employment law matters, etc.) published in the last 12 months.
Newsstand (Proquest): Proquest Newsstand offers access to full text of over 1,300 newspapers. The collection includes national newspapers including.
Regional Business News (EBSCO): Regional Business News provides full text for more than 80 regional U.S. and Canadian business publications.

Step 3: Assessment of the Comparator Group Human Resources Posture

Based on analysis of information obtained in Steps 1–3, prepare a professionally written report assessing the overall comparator group’s human resources posture, suitable for presentation to the senior executives of the company. Your report should present your assessment of the human resources areas listed below. The body of the report should be 8–10 pages excluding title, references page(s), and any appendices.

Benefits and Compensation
Business Leadership and Strategy
Diversity
Employee Relations
Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility
Organizational and Employee Development
Talent Management
Technology
Best Practices in Human Resource Managemen

Due Week 6 and worth 240 points

Read the weekly assigned chapters and view the lectures before beginning the assignment.

Read the case study titled “Developing a Missile: The Power of Autonomy and Learning.” before starting this assignment.

Write a five to six (5-6) page paper in which you:

Formulate a one (1) paragraph vision statement for the team project as project leader for the Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missile program.
Analyze key actions that Terry Little took to foster higher levels of performance, and recommend, in retrospect, a new course of action for a comprehensive organizational change as if you were in his position.
Describe the fallacies, consistencies, and inconsistencies that emerged from Terry Little’s leadership tactics, geared toward inspiring the team to greater heights. Construct an argument for how you would have acted differently than Terry Little and support the position.
Recommend at least three (3) strategies to the Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missile program management team with a view to improving its operational performance. Provide three (3) specific examples to support the response.

Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:

Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references must follow APA or school-specific format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.
Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required assignment page length.

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

Analyze differences in how people communicate across different cultures, and use effective communication strategies to foster positive and productive project team communication.
Use technology and information resources to research issues in project management leadership.
Write clearly and concisely about project management leadership using proper writing mechanics.

Grading for this assignment will be based on answer quality, logic / organization of the paper, and language and writing skills.Click here to access the rubric for this assignment

Read the P’kolino case study, pages 261-304 in the your text. It is an example of an extremely well written business plan, in the traditional style of the late second millennium. (Note: the financial exhibits are not missing, but are in a follow-on case for a module later in the class). P’kolino is a children’s furniture company, launched in 2005. The company is still very much in business and the website can be visited at http://www.pkolino.com/

Write a paper that answers to the following questions:

Does the business plan tell a coherent and compelling story?
Does the plan capture all of the learning that Antonio and JB have accumulated?
What three questions do you think Antonio and JB need to answer through further planning before they launch the venture?
What are the three strongest aspects of the plan?
What areas need improvement

Due Week 6 and worth 240 points

Read the weekly assigned chapters and view the lectures before beginning the assignment.

Read the case study titled “Developing a Missile: The Power of Autonomy and Learning.” before starting this assignment.

Write a five to six (5-6) page paper in which you:

Formulate a one (1) paragraph vision statement for the team project as project leader for the Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missile program.
Analyze key actions that Terry Little took to foster higher levels of performance, and recommend, in retrospect, a new course of action for a comprehensive organizational change as if you were in his position.
Describe the fallacies, consistencies, and inconsistencies that emerged from Terry Little’s leadership tactics, geared toward inspiring the team to greater heights. Construct an argument for how you would have acted differently than Terry Little and support the position.
Recommend at least three (3) strategies to the Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missile program management team with a view to improving its operational performance. Provide three (3) specific examples to support the response.

Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:

Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references must follow APA or school-specific format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.
Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required assignment page length.

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

Analyze differences in how people communicate across different cultures, and use effective communication strategies to foster positive and productive project team communication.
Use technology and information resources to research issues in project management leadership.
Write clearly and concisely about project management leadership using proper writing mechanics.

Grading for this assignment will be based on answer quality, logic / organization of the paper, and language and writing skills.Click here to access the rubric for this assignment

Maximum two pages, single-spaced

– Select one author and their evaluation approach from the Evaluation Roots Tree (see Carden & Alkin, 2012)

– Consult 3 sources about the approach and answer the following questions:

1. What are the important elements of the approach?

2. What are its key strengths?

3. What are its key limitations?

4. How has it has been used (provide one example)?

5. How would this approach fit or not fit for the evaluation of your program?( Intensive English program in NCSU)

!!! and i selected Michael Quinn Patton, his Utilization-forcused evaluation approach

here are Appendix, still APA citation

Shared Practice: Analysis of Strategic Alliances or Value Opportunities

Do you regularly make time in your busy schedule to read and evaluate the current research in your professional field? This is a practice many successful executives have embraced, and one that helps to keep them on the leading edge of thought.

To prepare for this Discussion, “Shared Practice: Analysis of Strategic Alliances or Value Opportunities,” you will be reading and critically analyzing one of the articles in this week’s Learning Resources.

Joseph, G. (2009). Mapping, measurement and alignment of strategy using the balanced scorecard: The Tata Steel case. Accounting Education, 18(2), 117–130.

Post by Day 3, the following:

Provide a brief summary and critical evaluation of the article you have been assigned.
Provide an analysis of how the information contained in the article relates to strategic alliance or value opportunities for your current or former organization, using specific examples

What is Japanese American?”: essay of 2 pages

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1st writing assignment: “What is Japanese American?”:

1. 2 pages. Due in 8 hours

2. Respond to the question “What is Japanese American?”

3. There is no right or wrong and you can take the essay in any direction you want, but if you have trouble starting, you can use one or more of the following as prompts:

a. Can Japanese Americans be considered as Japanese?

b. Are Japanese Americans the same as other Americans?

c. Is there such thing as a Japanese American culture?

d. Should we study Japanese American history as part of Japanese history or as part of American history?

e. Should Japanese Americans hang on to their history?

f. What aspects or parts of Japanese American history should be taught to future generations?

A 3-5 page paper is due in Week 2. The paper will consist of 3-5 pages of content, a cover page and a reference page. The total page count with the cover page and the reference page should be 5-7 pages.

Your paper should include an introduction and conclusion that summarize the contents of the entire paper.

Your paper should be written in proper APA format. This link will take you to the section of the APUS library that can assist you with formatting:

apus.campusguides.com/content.php

Paper topic: How Have We Evolved in the Management Field?

Write:

Based on your readings and research, develop a timeline of five key management theory/principle milestones over time. Please address the following questions for each of the milestones you elect to include on your timeline:

Why was this milestone significant for the period of time it was created? What was going on in the world of work that allowed the environment to know the time was right for this particular milestone?
Which theorist “fathered” the principle? What were the signs of the time which led the theorist to develop the management concept?
What are the highlights and limitations of the theory/principle?

References: At least two references are required for this assignment. You may use your textbook as a reference in addition to the two external references