Category: Essays

Compare and contrast the: 3 movies Birth of a Nation, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, and Citizen Kane. Discuss the political content of these films. What is the political message of each movie? Hoe does the film reflect social and political reality of the era? What was the political impact of these movies at the time of their release? PLEASE add your interpretation of how politics was reflected and resolved in film. DO NOT provide a plot summation of the movies. Analyze the political content and intent contained in these films.

– Answer to the essay question is 3-5 pages ( TNR 12 point, double spaced

Review the details of the case Authority and Leadership: Rising From the Ranks from your course text, and respond to the following questions:

Identify the potential advantages Julie might enjoy in becoming manager of a group of which she has long been a member, and contrast these with the possible disadvantages that might present themselves because she has long been a member of this group.
Describe how Julie will have to proceed in establishing herself as the legitimate possessor or supervisory authority on the unit, and describe the sources and forms of Julie’s authority.

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In any organization, regardless of the industry, some level of conflict and/or office bickering is inevitable and may have a damaging impact on productivity and motivation or morale. However, it is the responsibility of the manager to ensure that conflict is avoided whenever possible and, when it does occur, it is handled in an appropriate and respectful manner. With this in mind, listen to the podcast, Stop the Medical Office Bickering and respond to your selected option.

Case Study: A Matter of Motivation: The Delayed Promotion

Review the details of the case above from your course text, and respond to the following questions:

Thoroughly analyze the likely state of your ability to motivate yourself in your new position. In the process, comment to whatever extent you feel necessary on your level of confidence in the relative stability of your position and how this might affect your performance.
Describe the most likely motivational state of your HIM staff at the time you assumed the director’s position, and explain in detail why this state probably exists.
Based on the podcast, what are some proactive strategies that management could have used to reduce the potential for conflict in this situation

4 pages, double-spaced. I have written about one page. just follow it. The appendix are my paper, leadership theory and approaches.

PART I:

Write a case story describing “a real-life, close-to-the- bone dilemma or critical incident” that you have experienced that has resulted in a “wound” during your career. Preferably, if possible, the story should relate to a leadership position or some leadership role that you currently have, or have had as a university or high school student. The story itself should not typically exceed one page. It should be rich enough in specifics to facilitate the reader’s ability to contextualize your experience.

PART II:

Describe what you actually did to deal with the wound. Explain to the reader what you believe the short-term (next day to a month) and long-term [academic/professional] impact of that particular strategy was. This part of your paper should not typically exceed one page.

PART III:

Using your Jung inventory findings, as well as a minimum of two (2) leadership theories/frameworks from your readings, class discussions, homework assignments and group work: specific leadership theory.

· Identify, in retrospect, given your new exposure to “leadership” in this course, courses of action, approaches, strategies, conceptual approaches that you might have taken in order to avoid the wound in the first place. Take care to identify the specific leadership theory/frame that would suggest/justify your thinking and explain why that theory is consistent with your response.

· Identify a minimum of three different courses of action that you could have pursued, but didn’t, in addressing with the wound, after the wound occurred. Provide at least one major advantage and one major disadvantage of each course of action listed. Take care to identify the specific leadership theory/frame that would suggest/justify your thinking and explain why that theory is consistent with your response.

· Explain the leadership lessons that you learned or that were reinforced as the result of this wounding experience and the process of reflecting on it. Transactional

· This part of your paper is typically two-three pages.

· You do not need a separate “references” page at the end of your paper.

· You DO need to integrate your sources/claims throughout your paper.

· Given the nature of the assignment, you may use “I” throughout the paper.

· No cover page.

· Your name and initialized “honor pledge” at top of page one.

Week 5 Discussion 1–Understanding Term Sheets

What does an entrepreneur need to do before even trying for a formal term sheet? Identify the actions.

Week 5 Discussion 2—Reward Equity

Incentive problems arise in the course of the firm’s operations. Firm managers have many opportunities to take actions that benefit themselves at the expense of outside investors. What actions can outside investors take to ensure reward equity?

Answer all questions per discussion. 200-250 words per discussion. Originality, no plagiarism and scholarly resources per discussion. Thank you

Compare Psalm 23 and The Sermon on the Mount. The works have similar themes, or messages. What is the main idea of each work? How are the works alike? How are they different? How is the style, or genre, of each work appropriate to its purpose? (These questions are meant to give you some guidance to compare the two works, but you will need to choose one or two of these questions to answer, or create your own comparison. You can’t answer all of these questions well in 1-2 pages.) 500 words in a word document

Please write a paper that is at least two pages in length in which you address the question below. Write your paper in APA format with at least one cited scholarly reference. Please utilize the LIRN library to help you get started with your research. You may visit the Academic Resource Center for a guide on how to utilize the LIRN library successfully.

1. Suppose you explain the concept of an inflation tax to a friend. You correctly tell them, “When a government prints money to cover its expenditures instead of taxing and borrowing, it causes inflation. An inflation tax is simply the erosion of the value of money from this inflation. Therefore, the burden of the tax lands on those who hold money.” Your friend responds, “What’s so bad about that? Rich people have all the money, so an inflation tax seems fair to me. Maybe the government should finance all of its expenditures by printing money.”

Is it true that rich people hold more money than poor people do?

Do rich people hold a higher percent of their income as money than poor people?

Compared to an income tax, does an inflation tax place a greater or lesser burden on the poor? Explain.

Are there any other reasons why engaging in an inflation tax is not a good policy?

Who is responsible for who is wealthy and who is not wealthy in this country and why?

How does money flow from the less fortunate to the more fortunate? Is the system broken? Explain your viewpoint and properly cite your references. Be sure to identify the difference between what is an opinion and what is based upon research. To what degree is this an ethical question and not an economics one? Be sure to explain your reasoning.

PART II: Reflection Paper

1. After you have reviewed this module’s material about the Federal Reserve, write a reflection paper on whether or not you think the Fed has too much power. What danger, if any, is there in what the Fed does? Could the Fed have created, caused, or made worse the economic crisis in recent years? Reflect and be sure to document your reasons. Your submission must be at least one page in length and in APA format.

Please answer each of the following questions. Please ensure that your responses are at least 3 to 5 sentences in length.

1. List three abiotic factors in the environment of a fish.

2. Describe two ways that decomposers differ from herbivores.

3. Why is a food web better than a food chain as a way to describe a community?

4. Describe two situations in which competition may involve combat and two that do not involve combat

5. List three introduced species that have become pests, and explain why they became pests.

6. List four kinds of limiting factors that help set the carrying capacity for a species.

7. Describe two situations that can lead to a clumped distribution of organisms.

8. As the human population continues to grow, what should we expect to happen to other species?

9. What forces will ultimately lead to the control of human population growth?

10. Why must people who live in countries that are not able to produce surplus food eat grains?

PART II: ESSAY

Directions: Write a 1 to 2 page, double-spaced paper in 12 pt. font in response to the following question. Find one article using AAU’s LIRN (library) to use as support. Please use APA format. Please visit the Academic Resource Center for an effective guide on how use LIRN and for concise APA guidelines.

The Ecosystem

Read the article titled, “Lab ecosystems show signs of evolving.” Provide your thoughts on how we could make our ecosystem better. How is our ecosystem affected today? Explain what was intriguing to you after reading this article.

Article Title: Lab ecosystems show signs of evolving

Publisher: Society for Science & the Public

Author: Milius, Susan

Identifier: http://search.proquest.com/abitrade/docview/197528630/abstract/embedded/J3QDHREJUHMZORQ9?source=fedsrch

ISSN: 00368423

Source: Science News, 158(3), 39p

An innovative Internet-based company, movement toward data warehousing seems to be one of the most viable options to give your company a competitive advantage; however, these concepts must be explained to the executive board in a manner to garner support.
Section 1: Design Document

Write a six to ten (6-10) page design document in which you:

Support the need for the use of relational databases and data warehousing. From a management standpoint, it may be important to show the efficiencies that can be gained for executive oversight.
Create a database schema that supports the company’s business and processes. Explain and support the database schema with relevant arguments that support the rationale for the structure. Note: The minimum requirement for the schema should entail the tables, fields, relationships, views, and indexes.
Identify and create database tables with appropriate field-naming conventions. Then, identify primary keys and foreign keys, and explain how referential integrity will be achieved. Normalize the database tables to third normal form (3NF).
Identify and create an Entity-Relationship (E-R) Diagram relating the tables of the database schema through the use of graphical tools in Microsoft Visio or an open source alternative such as Dia. Note: The graphically depicted solution is not included in the required page length but must be included in the design document appendix. Explain your rationale behind the design of the E-R Diagram.
Identify and create a Data Flow Diagram (DFD) relating the tables of your database schema through the use of graphical tools in Microsoft Visio or an open source alternative such as Dia. Note: The graphically depicted solution is not included in the required page length but must be included in the design document appendix. Explain the rationale behind the design of your DFD.
Illustrate the flow of data including both inputs and outputs for the use of a data warehouse. The diagram should map data between source systems, operational systems, data warehouses and specified data marts. Note: The graphically depicted solution is not included in the required page length.

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.
Include charts or diagrams created in MS Visio or Dia as an appendix of the design document. All references to these diagrams must be included in the body of the design document.

Section 2: Revised Project Plan

Use Microsoft Project to:

Update the project plan (summary and detail) template, from Project Deliverable 2: Business Requirements, with three to five (3-5) new project tasks each consisting of five to ten (5-10) subtasks.

Use the updated demand (QD) and marginal revenue (MR) functions below to complete this assignment.

Due to changes in the low calorie, frozen, microwavable industry’s market structure, the firm-specific demand equation for our hypothetical company has changed and is now:

QD = 350,000 -100 P

This function generates the following Marginal Revenue Function (MR):

MR = 3500-0.02Q

Write a six to eight (6-8) page paper in which you:

1. Outline a plan that will allow you to identify the market structure in which your company now operates. Comment on the relevant elasticity results from Assignment 1 and your research into two (2) of leading competitors in this industry, taking note of their pricing strategies, profitability, and their relationships within the industry (worldwide).

Note: In Assignment 1, the assumption was that the market structure was perfectly competitive and therefore the equilibrium price would be determined by setting demand equal to supply, or QD = QS. Changes in the market now suggest it is imperfectly competitive and that your firm has substantial market power to set its own “optimal” price.

2. Given that the market structure has changed from the original scenario in Assignment 1, determine at least two (2) likely factors that might have caused the change. Predict the primary manner in which this change would likely impact business operations in the new market environment.

3. Analyze the major short run and long cost functions for the low-calorie, frozen microwaveable food company, given the cost functions below. Suggest substantive ways in which you may use this information to make production decisions in the short-run and the long-run.

TC = 160,000,000 + 100Q + 0.00632Q2
VC = 100Q + 0.00632Q2
MC= 100 + 0.0126Q
Hints: What is the equation for average total costs? How is this useful?
What is the output level and dollar value associated with minimum average total cost and minimum average variable costs?

4. Determine the possible circumstances under which the company should discontinue operations. Suggest key actions that management should take in order to confront these circumstances. Provide a rationale for your response. (Hint: Your firm’s price must cover average variable costs in the short run and average total costs in the long run to continue operations.)

5. Suggest a pricing policy that will enable your low-calorie, frozen microwavable food company to maximize profits. Provide a rationale for your suggestion.

(Hint: Use the profit maximization rule MR = MC to determine your optimal price and optimal output level. You may also want to compare these values with those you generated in Assignment 1 to determine whether your price would be higher or lower.

6. Outline a plan, or use your results above, to evaluate the company’s financial performance. Consider all the key drivers of performance, such as total revenue, total cost, total profit, etc. Assuming the company is currently operating at its optimal scale (min. ATC = min. LRATC), what is the short run and long run strategy if current economic profits are positive … or negative?

Hint: To calculate profit in the short run, use the cost, price, and output levels you generated in part 5.
Hint: Profit in the long run will be driven to zero if no significant barriers to entry or exit exist.

7. Recommend two (2) actions that the company could take in order to improve its profitability and deliver more value to its stakeholders. Outline, in brief, a plan to implement your recommendations.

8. References: Use at least five (5) quality academic resources in this assignment.

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.

One of the pivotal goals of consumer health literacy efforts is to design educational materials that attract as well as educate users. In this Assignment, you design a health information document on a topic that is of interest to you.

To prepare:

Select a health issue of interest to you.

Identify the audience or population that you seek to educate about this issue.

Search the Internet to find credible sites containing information about your selected topic.

Review the two health literacy websites listed in this week’s Learning Resources. Focus on strategies for presenting information.

To complete:

Design an educational handout on the health issue you selected.

Include a cover page.

Include an introduction that provides:

An explanation of your issue and why you selected it

A description of the audience you are addressing

In the handout itself:

Develop your handout in such a way that it attracts the attention of the intended audience.

Include a description of the health issue and additional content that will enhance your message (i.e., key terms and definitions, graphics, illustrations, etc.).

Recommend at least five sites that provide clear, valuable, and reliable information on the topic.

Note: Remember to keep the information in your health handout and its design at the appropriate level for the audience you are seeking to inform. Submit your Assignment as a Word document.

This Assignment is due by Day 4 of this week.

Although the focus of this last assignment is on the handout (flyer) itself, as part of the requirements, you will provide an introduction in which you will explain the issue at hand as well as your targeted audience. You are likely to provide citations and references along that section. Thus, you will need to list those in the references list accordingly.

To summarize:

– APA format for cover Page, Introduction, and References list

– Creativity and informativeness in handout

– Meet all requirements

– Due by Day 4 (Thursday night, 11th)

– Handout must be in your file (no link to it), and the file must be Microsoft WORD (no PDF file).

– The grading rubric is different for this last assignment. I suggest you have a look at it (see in Course Information); you will then know what you will be graded on.

– Additional precisions:

References list = not on the flyer since it refers to your text narrative (introduction, description of your audience, etc…) = usual RL.

Recommended websites = intended for the flyer readers = on the flyer per se.

Since the flyer is about information and making sure that it addresses its purpose and reaches the intended audience, no need for APA on the flyer, just clarity, good information, and originality (nothing copied on the Web or previous works).