Category: Essays

Attached is the Excel Information

Using Microsoft (MS) Excel, construct a graph showing supply and demand in the E-Book market based on the data above. (Save this file because you will re-work it later in the assignment.) When finished, copy and paste or import your graph into an MS Word document.

In your MS Word document, below your imported graph, respond to the following:

Explain how the Laws of Supply and Demand are illustrated in this graph.
Describe the equilibrium price and quantity in this market.
Assume that the government imposes a price floor of $12 in the E-Book market. Explain what would happen in this market.
Assume that the price floor is removed and a price ceiling is imposed at $6. Explain what would happen in this market.
Now, assume that the price of E-Readers (used with E-Books) drops from $60 by fifty percent. How would this change impact the demand for E-Books? Explain your answer. Then, reconstruct your original graph to show this change and place it in your MS Word document below your explanation.

Remember, quotations, paraphrases, and ideas you get from books, articles, or other sources of information should be cited using APA styl

The discussion board assignment for this week requires you to post an original response to the question below and also to post a response to a post from one of your classmates. In creating your original response, you will need to create a new thread to contain your response. When responding to one of your classmates, you can simply reply to their post when you read it.

Original Post:

To receive the full points possible on this assignment, you will need to do both of these parts by the due date at Noon.

After you have done the reading and reviewed the material contained in the external site for the week, respond on the discussion board to the following questions.

1) Where did you place on the ideology matrix?

2) Where you surprised by the results or did you place about where you thought that you would?

3) What do you think has been the largest influence on your ideology and why?

4) Do you have any criticisms of the IDEALog quiz?

Some might argue that the statement of cash flows is an optional financial statement and does not provide critical information needed for a firm or investor to succeed. Do you agree with this statement? Why or why not?
There are two methods for constructing the statement of cash flows: the direct method and the indirect method. What are the similarities and differences between the two methods? Which of the two is most preferred? Which is required by FASB?

When one thinks of the normal distribution, the first thing that comes to mind is the bell curve and grades. While this is one example of a normal curve that is widely recognized, it is not the only one. Try to come up with a unique normal distribution that your classmates have not posted already. Explain your curve with items such as the mean and standard deviation, if available. What do the areas in the intervals µ – σ to µ + σ, µ – 2σ to µ + 2σ and µ – 3σ to µ + 3σ represent as far as areas under the normal curve? If you have the mean and standard deviation, calculate what the actual intervals are for your curve. Please include any citations regarding where you obtained your data for the curve.

Strategic Alliances

Using the same manufacturing company you selected for the Week Two Assignment, address the following points:

Identify a strategic alliance your chosen company has formed and discuss how three to four of the issues from the following list have been addressed by the alliance:
Adding value to products
Improving market access
Strengthening operations
Adding technological strength
Enhancing strategic growth
Enhancing organizational skills
Building financial strength
It is common for a strategic alliance to be formed with a third party logistics provider (3PL). Describe three to four benefits that may be realized from such an alliance.

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 to the textbook and the Forbes web site

Training and Development

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DST Systems Case Study

Using the example situation below complete the following Training Needs Analysis (question set below) and in addition to answering the Training Needs Analysis questions, write a one page double spaced summary over how the information collected would benefit a trainer and why a trainer would use this process.

DST Systems: Document Manager Project

The Application Analyst (AA) department manager, Lori Williams, called the training department and asked to sit down and discuss the new product they were rolling out to all the company’s AAs, world wide, and what training could be offered starting on August 11, 2009 and on going as they were looking to roll out Document Manager on October 2, 2009. This product would effect 2500 people.
Lori Williams met with two trainers Sarah Ward and Caroline Smith. Lori explained that all of the AAs were creating the same documentation over and over again, but had to save it to their own desktops and were unable to share the information because they didn’t have a document repository. Document Manager was going to fix this problem. All of the AAs could then share documentation. Document Manager too would have a template in it for the AAs to use. Document Manager would make the AA’s work much easier and quicker. The AAs were asked by upper management to be more effective with their documentation. Lori wanted to train all 2500 employees world wide before Document Manger went out to the company on 10/2/09.
Sarah and Caroline asked Lori what the AAs were using now to type up their documentation and what would be different with Document Manager. Lori explained that now AAs used Word Perfect 2001, however Document Manager would use Microsoft Word 2007. Due to this huge change Lori believes every employee effected needs to come to a training class that should last at least 2 hours long, if not longer. Since the training would have to be on a computer, the training departments computer classroom’s only hold 15 people per class. Lori also said that she would like to see each employee pass a test using Word 2007 and Document Manager before attaining access to the new programs. She went on to explain that she would also like to have online training for Document Manager and Word 2007 available for all employees via their intranet site. Lori also told Sarah and Caroline that upper management had not yet decided how to reach the global employees for this training. Times were tight and they didn’t want to pay for the employees to travel or for Sarah and Caroline to travel. Lori said that she trusted Sarah and Caroline would have the right answer for upper management.
Lori also gave Sarah and Caroline some background on the AAs. She told them that for the most part the AA department’s abilities and familiarity with computers and software was exceptional. Lori had taken over that department only 2 years ago, but she explained how she weeded out the non performing employees and replaced them with hard working, smart, efficient ones. Sarah and Caroline were excited about working with this audience.

Training Need Assessment

Department:
Date:
Department Supervisor:
Desired Program:

Goals

What organizational goal is driving this training?
What will the benefit be?
What is the skill gap?
What competencies (knowledge, skills, or attitudes) will this program need?
What evaluation will be used to measure the level of goal achievement?

Target Population

Who will be trained?
What is the estimated class size?
How many classes will there be and how long will this training last?
What are the knowledge and skill prerequisites?

Type of Training

What type of program is being proposed?
What media, if any will be used in the training?

Alternatives

What will happen if we do not delivering the training?
What are the restrictions or limitations for delivering a program?
What other methods may be used to reach the goal (include limitations and advantages)?

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The Triple Constraint of Project…
“The Triple Constraint of Project Management”

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“The Triple Constraint of Project Management” Please respond to the following:

Briefly explain in your own words the relationship between each element of the triple constraint of project management. Then, determine whether or not you believe it is important to understand the triple constraint to be an efficient project manager. Justify your response

Read the following passage and answer the questions below. Try to guess the context of the situation you are reading. If you aren’t sure, look up the book, Johnny Got His Gun on Google and see if it helps make things clearer.

The nurse’s hands were on him. He could feel her washing his body and manipulating his flesh and dressing the wound in his side. She used something warm and greasy to dissolve the scab substance that held the mask to that point of irritation near his throat. He felt like a child that has awakened weeping from a nightmare to find itself safe and snug in its mother’s arms. The nurse was company even though he couldn’t see or hear her. She was somebody and she was his friend. He wasn’t alone any longer. With her at hand there was no need for him to worry no need for him to struggle no need for him to think. The responsibility was completely hers and he had nothing to fear so long as she was close to him. Instead of the rat gnawing at his side he felt her cool fingers and the cleanliness of new bandages and fresh linen.

He knew now that the rat had been only a dream. He was so relieved to discover this that for a few minutes he almost forgot his fear. And then relaxing under the nurse’s care he suddenly chilled all over at realization that the rat dream might come again. It was almost a certainty to come again. He knew that the whole dream was started by his thinking of the wound in his side. His awareness of the wound as he fell asleep brought on the dream of the rat feeding at it. Since the wound remained it seemed almost certain that the same chain of thought would bring the rat back to him again in his sleep. Each time he fell asleep the rat would come and sleep instead of being forgetfulness would become as bad as being awake. A guy could stand a lot when he was awake. But when sleep came he deserved to forget everything. Sleep should be like death.

He knew the rat was a dream. He was sure of that. All he had to do was to find some way of getting himself out of the dream when it came. He could remember when he was a kid he used to have nightmares. Funny thing about them was they weren’t particularly awful ones either. The worst one was where he seemed to be an ant walking across a sidewalk and the sidewalk was so big and he was so small that sometimes he awakened yelling he was so scared. That was the way to stop nightmares by yelling so hard you waked yourself up. But hell that wouldn’t work for him now. In the first place he couldn’t yell and in the second place he was so deaf he couldn’t hear the noise anyhow. That was no good. He would have to find some other way.

He remembered that as he got older and different nightmares came he used to be able to think himself out of them. Just when it seemed the awful thing that was after him was going to get him he could think in his sleep here Joe this is just a dream. It’s just a dream Joe understand? And then in a little bit he would open his eyes and look into the darkness around him and the dream would be gone. That system might work with the rat. Instead of imagining himself running and yelling for help the next time the rat came he would just think to himself this is a dream. And then he would open—

But that wouldn’t work. He couldn’t open his eyes. In his sleep in the middle of the rat dream he might think himself out of it but how would he be able to prove he was awake if he couldn’t open his eyes and look around into the darkness?

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1. List any differences between the following claims:

· Joe believes a rat has crawled over him, and is eating from his open wound.

· Joe knows a rat has crawled over him, and is eating from his open wound.

· Joe is certain that a rat has crawled over him, and is eating from his open wound.

2. Why should we trust our senses and experiences to tell us about the world? Why shouldn’t we?

3. True or False: Descartes decides it does not matter if we are dreaming right now or not.

. If true, an example?

. Does Joe from Johnny Got His Gun agree?

Reference

Trumbo, D. 1994. Johnny Got His Gun. New York, NY: Citadel Press. First published 1939.

Health

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“Needs and Uses of Long-Term Care” Please respond to the following:

Determine two (2) current needs and two (2) current uses of long-term care services.
Determine the main way(s) the overall needs and uses of long-term care services have evolved over the past fifty (50) years.
Predict the main way(s) the overall neds and uses of long-term care services will continue to evolve over the next ten (10) years.

Need to use at least two resources and cite them correctly in your original post to obtain complete grades, your original post should not pass more than 20 lines for each discussion

Conduct some independent research and find an article in a contemporary magazine, online newspaper, or journal that is related to a leader in HR.

Write a one-page synopsis of the article and an additional one page on why this leader is relevant to our course topic is contemporary HR