A Final Policy Paper is due the last class session. The Final Policy Paper will contribute 25% to your final grade.

Focus of the Final Paper

Prepare a ten- to fifteen-page paper that includes at least five different scholarly references. Your final paper must identify a current public policy issue/controversy in the news today that would benefit from a policy change and include the following components:

Describe and analyze the scope of the public policy concern. Be sure to address the following in your analysis.

Who are the stakeholders and affected constituencies?
What political institutions are relevant to the policy discussion about this issue?
Is the public policy issue one that is faced by both the federal government and state governments?
How much does the public policy issue cost Americans? How much would it cost to address the issue? If the costs are unknown, why are they unknown?
Discuss at least three proposed policies to address this issue.
Recommend a solution to the policy concern from those proposed. Be sure to address the following in your recommendation:

Assess the administrative feasibility of the solution.
Assess the advantages and disadvantages of the solution.
Relate your recommendation back to the issues raised in the scope of the policy concern.

Writing the Final Paper

The Final Paper:

Must be ten- to fifteen double-spaced pages in length and formatted according to APA style as outlined in the approved APA style guide. Note that title/abstract pages, references, and any exhibits/appendices are not counted in the total page length.
Must include a cover page that includes:
Student’s name
Course name and number
Title of paper
Instructor’s name
Date submitted
Must include an introductory paragraph with a succinct thesis statement.
Must address the topic of the paper with critical thought.
Must conclude with a restatement of the thesis and a conclusion paragraph.
Must use at least five scholarly sources, including a minimum of two from the Ashford Online Library.
Must use APA style as outlined in the approved APA style guide to document all sources.
Must include, on the final page, a Reference Page that is completed according to APA style as outlined in the approved APA style guid

You have volunteered to help create an ITT Technical Institute student project management group. You have been asked by the chair of the business school to develop a simple project plan to show the intended activities, to ensure a student group will be active by the first quarter of the year. Think of a minimum of six activities that need to be completed in that timeframe, ensuring that each task has a title, duration, start and end dates, and a resource assigned to the task. Refer to p. 60 of the textbook Project 2013 Absolute Beginner’s Guide and make sure to include at least two of the tasks as indented.

Based on the given scenario, build a simple project plan in Microsoft Project.

Create a new Microsoft Project file and save it with the name Exercise-3.2nn, where nn is your initials.

Submission Requirements:

Submit your responses in a Microsoft Project format (.mpp) document of the following specification:

Length: Minimum six tasks

Evaluation Criteria:

The Exercise rubric will be used to evaluate this assessment. In addition to the rubric, you will be evaluated on the following points:

Did you include a minimum of six tasks in the project plan?
Did you ensure that each task has a duration, start and end dates, and a resource assigned to it?
Did you include indented tasks in your project pla

You are working for Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) within the long-term planning department of private prisons. As a Private Prison Design Specialist, you have the authority to conceptualize future prisons around the prison issues of today and tomorrow, so your supervisor has turned to you to discuss some issues in a paper of 2–3 pages to be submitted for review. You have a reputation for thinking outside of the box while being realistic and because of this, your supervisor feels you can properly address alternatives to incarceration. Now you are to make the changes, as outlined below, based upon today’s resources and prison systems.

Prisons are overloaded with inmates who are incarcerated for drug offenses. What is an alternative to incarcerating them? Describe how you would handle this type of problem without incarceration, and give reasons supporting why your solution would be more cost-effective and prone to rehabilitation. Be sure to reference all sources using APA style.

The following formula describes a large company’s number of viruses, V, on employee

computers. The variable, t, is time, in years, since 2002. Answer the following questions showing all

of your work.

= 5√ + 12

a. How many viruses were reported in 2003 ( = 1)?

b. How many viruses were reported in 2006 ( = 4)?

c. How many viruses were reported in 2038 ( = 36)?

d. Using the information on number of viruses reported in the year 2003, 2006, and 2038,

describe the company’s increase in viruses on employee computers since 2002.

2. (25 points) Write a prime trinomial and state why it cannot be factored.

3. (25 points) Pick three random numbers and find the greatest common factor of all three.

4. (20 points) Write the formula of the polynomial factoring and provide one example

article analysis for outsourcing

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1.Please read Two articles I posted

2. Briefly describe a primary benefit and a drawback of outsourcing (1-2 paragraphs each

Emerging markets M1

Most of us have situations in which we find it difficult to communicate. Improving your written communication skills and being comfortable speaking to people are extremely important. Develop a two- to three-page APA-formatted paper in which you analyze your personal communication skills. Be sure to address the following:

Describe the assessment you used to analyze your skills.
Discuss your communication gaps.
Describe any additional training you need in specific areas of communication.
Analyze how you can improve your current communication skills to prepare you for advancement in your profession.

Your paper must be two to three pages (not including title and reference pages) and must be formatted according to APA style as outlined in the approved APA style guide. You must cite three to four scholarly sources in addition to the textboo

Risk Management and the Supply Chain

Describe four unknown-unknown sources of risk that can affect a supply chain and four known-unknown sources of risk that can affect a supply chain. For each source, apply a management strategy that may eliminate or lessen the effects on the overall supply chain.

Your paper must be four to five pages (not including title and reference pages) and must be formatted according to APA style as outlined in the approved APA style guide. You must cite at least three scholarly sources

The Psychology of Writing”

Now that you have learned a little about the internal and external factors that influence how you compose your thoughts, write an essay in which you describe your own writing process.

Tell of a specific writing assignment, one that might have been related to your career or your personal or academic life. Describe what the assignment was and explain how you moved through the planning to the reviewing process.

The paper should be about 300 words long—longer if necessary.

Please type—double spaced—to allow room for comments

Developing a Vision and Mission Statement

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The Township of Goodness Falls is a medium-sized town in a rural part of the state. The township is facing several issues and the mayor feels that before raising taxes to cover these items, the time is now to get out in front of the issues by forming a fundraising committee or looking for an established nonprofit agency to help search for grants to help the city and the police department. The city needs to look for a grant, or grants, to pay for police equipment and computer training for the entire force. The police badly need four (4) new computers, twelve (12) bulletproof vests, eight (8) telephones and two (2) motorcycles (or horses) to catch criminals on foot. Once an agency is selected or a committee is formed internally, the township will also need funding for eighteen (18) street lights for a high-crime neighborhood and there is a suggestion to form a task force to count the broken windows in another neighborhood and begin the process of getting those repaired or replaced. This morning, someone else added that the fire department would soon need a new fire truck.

For this assignment, pretend that you work for a nonprofit organization in this township and you are already on a standing committee for community development. You have just heard about the city’s needs, and you have approached the Director to ask if you can work on this project. The director has given you this approval, if your agency can get the computer training portion of the grant monies. The director mentioned that there may be a person in the community who may be willing to donate a motorcycle to the city through your nonprofit agency. Your committee does not meet again for another week, and you have been tasked with rewriting the vision and mission statements for the agency to include these new projects. Keep in mind the overarching statement from the agency was a combined vision and mission statement of the agency “…an organization which strives to provide the highest quality response and help to the community through clear communication, training, shared knowledge, and accountability.” You will revise the broad statement into two (2) statements, a vision statement and mission statement. These will comprise the road map for the rest of the assignments. Use the Internet to locate references that will help you to write powerful vision and mission statements for grant proposals, and gain insight into how organizations and nonprofits view vision and mission statements.

Note: Goodness Falls is a fictitious town in an unknown state.

Write a four to six (4-6) page paper in which you:

Create a vision statement that details:

the values or beliefs that inform your work.
what you would ultimately hope to accomplish as a result of your efforts.

Create a mission statement that details:

how the standing committee plans to work toward this broad vision.
who the organization benefits.

Evaluate both your mission and vision statements to see if they:

are clear and concise.
reflect your values and beliefs.
demonstrate a commitment to serving the public good.
are powerful.

Propose changes that you can make based on your findings in Criteria 3a to 3d.
Determine the most immediate needs for the community first and then rate them in a ranking order by most urgent to least urgent.
Determine which of these needs will translate into effective proposals. (This decision will be the basis for your foundation and corporate searches.)
Include at least three (3) references (no more than five [5] years old) from material outside the textbook.

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 the major segments of the grants community: the Federal Awarding Agency, the Pass-Through Entity, and the recipient.
Design a proposal by learning how marketing, analysis, planning, designing, estimating, and publishing play a part in the process.
Use technology and information resources to research issues in grants management and proposal writing.
Write clearly and concisely about grants management and proposal writing using proper writing mechanics