Category: Essays

Your final paper should be 8-10 pages in length (excluding title page, references and appendix). I prefer APA formatting for your citation style. Use it consistently. Make sure you cite everything properly. Be careful not to plagiarize. Due to the tight grading turnaround time I cannot accept late papers. No extensions will be given. All late papers will be marked down by one-third of a letter grade for each day past the due date. This includes weekends.USE VARIABLES from http://www.weichihchen.com/2016-spss.html
DATA SET : States 2016
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Always include file extension.All other deails can be found in the syllabus.

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OUTSTANDING GOOD SATISFACTORY UNSATISFACTORY (D/F)
Student is able to employ current technologies to access information, to conduct research, and to communicate findings. [“conduct research” includes data generation] Skillfully employs technologies to access information, research an issue or test a hypothesis, and communicate findings and makes effective and efficient choices.Demonstrates a sophisticated understanding of the strengths and limitations of a particular technology (or methodology the technology allows). Correctly identifies what types of problems or tasks it is suited to and which it is not, and why. Efficiently employs appropriate technologies to access information, research an issue or test a hypothesis, and communicate findings.Identifies the strengths and limitations of a particular technology (or methodology the technology allows). Correctly identifies what types of problems or tasks it is suited to and which it is not. Satisfactorily employs appropriate technologies to access information, research an issue or test a hypothesis, and communicate findings as directed by the course.Satisfactorily recounts the strengths and limitations of a particular technology (or methodology the technology allows). Satisfactorily identifies what types of problems or tasks it is suited to and which it is not. Does not employ appropriate technologies to access information, research an issue or test a hypothesis, and communicate findings.Cannot identify the strengths and limitations of a particular technology (or methodology the technology allows) nor identify what types of problems or tasks it is suited to and which it is not.
Student is able to formulate, evaluate, and communicate conclusions and inferences from quantitative information. Effective and insightful selection and presentation of a range of quantitative information.Formulates well-justified conclusions/inferences from the data at a high level of specificity and sophistication. Engages in extensively critical analysis of the conclusions/inferences including discussion of tests of validity and scope.Presentation is analytically precise, persuasive, and thorough. Appropriate selection and presentation of relevant quantitative information.Draws a reasonably-justified conclusion/inference from the data. Identifies basic strengths and weaknesses of the conclusions/ inferences noting concerns about validity and scope.Clearly and correctly presents conclusions and inferences. Satisfactory selection and presentation of relevant quantitative information in adherence with standards conveyed in the course.Draws conclusions/inferences from the data, noting appropriate concerns about validity and scope.Satisfactorily presents conclusions and inferences. Fails to select and present relevant quantitative information in adherence with standards conveyed in the course.Fails to draw, or critically assess, logical conclusions/inferences from the quantitative information.
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*All page numbers refer to the Eleventh edition of The Norton Introduction to Literature by Kelly J. Mays

Reading Assignments

1. Read “Drama” (740-765) which includes Trifles by Susan Glaspell.

2. Read A Doll House (784) by Henrick Ibsen.

3. Read The Sandbox by Edward Albee (Handout)

4. Read excerpt from As You Like it by William Shakespeare (Handout)

Final Exam Questions

Choose 2 of the following questions and answer in a fully developed essay of at least 1 ½ pages (50 points each). Make sure both essays indicate in the heading the prompt they are answering. For example: Category 1: question 2, or Category 3: question 3. Essays should be combined into a single document and submitted through SafeAssign before midnight on May 10.

All essays must be developed around a clear thesis that identifies a universal theme. Although you need not write 5 paragraphs for each (but make sure the prompt is fully addressed), organize your argument using topic sentences that relate to your thesis statement. Use correctly integrated and cited quotations from the texts, and include a work cited entry at the end of each essay.

Note: You may NOT answer 2 questions from the same category.

Category 1

In Albee’s The Sandbox, Grandma’s speeches are markedly different depending on whom she is addressing. Why?
What is the significance of the setting, including props, in The Sandbox?
Considering the textbook’s descriptions of the types of drama, is The Sandbox a tragedy, a comedy, a farce, a social drama, a tragi-comedy, etc., or does it fit more than one type? Consider the theme you perceive and how Albee’s manipulation of dramatic genre seems appropriate in conveying it.
Read Shakespeare’s famous “All the world’s a stage” monologue (As You Like It: Act 2, scene 7), spoken by Jaques. How might Albee be echoing Shakespeare’s words?

Category 2

In Trifles, how does Susan Glaspell’s title reflect the theme of her play?
In Trifles, the women conspire to conceal evidence that would incriminate Mrs. Wright. Why do they do so and, in your opinion, are their actions morally justifiable, or at least understandable?
CSI:CSM – Imagine you are a detective assigned to Mr. Wright’s murder case. How would you establish motive? (Note: Incorporating a theme will be tricky, but your thesis must make an argument. Considering the male characters’ attitudes to women’s issues, or their lack of attention to “insignificant” details, will help.)
What is the significance of setting, including physical and period, to the theme of Trifles?

Category 3

What is the significance of A Doll House’s being set during Christmas and New Year?
How are symbols and metaphors used to illuminate the theme of A Doll House? (Please remember there is no actual doll house in the play and it is therefore NOT a symbol!)
Compare and contrast Nora Helmer and Christine Linde.
Discuss sisterhood in A Doll House.
Although Nora Helmer obviously suffers from the limitations placed on women of her era, how might Torvald be considered equally subject to society’s expectations?
Discuss the idea of women’s autonomy in 19th century European society as portrayed in A Doll House.
Discuss Ibsen’s apparent implication that character traits are hereditary

Questions used from each category is completely up to you, but I emphasize that only 1 question can be used from any category and you can only pick 2 questions!

I am going to upload one of my previous essays in which I have gotten a decent score on, I feel that it would help aid you in writing an essay that would be more consistent with my own way of writing and help to better understand how my professor thinks. -Thanks

We choose to do what we do. Or do we? The issue of free will is a bread and butter one for philosophers. We've been arguing for thousands of years about this sort of thing. Some argue that we are free to choose as we wish. Others say we are not. To some, our actions are determined by an all powerful supreme being. Calvinists, for example, believe that all of our actions are pre-determined by the divine. Today, there are those that suggest that the brain is merely a matter of electrical impulses, that our actions are determined by biology. And still, most believe that we choose to do what we do.

The real payoff here lies in the notion of moral responsibility. We don't blame people for doing things where they have no choice. If your friend gets pushed by a bully and bangs into you, do you blame your friend for the accident? Your friend will rightly say, "It is not my fault. I did not mean to do that." We don't blame people, or even praise them, for doing things that they do not do voluntarily.

There is one part of voluntary action that has always intrigued me—namely, non-voluntary action. I've always been interested in the situation where one is coerced, or forced to choose to do something. In this section of the Nichomachean Ethics, Aristotle sets out the first understanding of coercion and moral responsibility.

Read the chapter on Voluntary Action from the Nichomachean Ethics.

here are two steps to this assignment:

Explain what Aristotle means in this text. Why is it important to distinguish between actions that are voluntary and involuntary?
Put this in a concrete context. Have you ever been concerned with an action that was less than fully voluntary? Have you ever seen a case where one was wrongly accused for something that was less than voluntary? Be creative here. In particular, you might want to look into the legal arena. Have you ever heard of a case where someone was forced to commit a crime against his or her will? (I'm thinking maybe of Patty Hearst here! http://crime.about.com/od/history/a/Patricia-Hearst.htm)

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As you read the assigned chapters in the text, write a reading journal. You may select from the following suggested questions, all of which are designed to help you reflect on the ways you react to the reading. In your reading journal you are to include items for all the chapters for a given period of time according to the course schedule.

Reading journals should be typed and be three to four full pages double-spaced. The reading journals will be uploaded to Blackboard on the day it is due. You cannot submit them after the link under Assignments is unavailable. Your reading journal should have a cover page and follow APA style including running head, title header, numbered pages, section headings, and a reference page where the only reference is the textbook. Do not write the questions into the narrative just use a section heading like interesting, unclear, linkable, debatable, and so on.

Choose a total of three of the following questions to write your Reading Journal. The use of the three questions should cover the chapters that you were assigned to read. Each question should be in its own section. What I am looking for in this assignment is for you to apply the readings to your classroom or professional practice. I am not looking for a summary of the readings.

1. Interesting: What do you find interesting in this reading assignment? Summarize the point of interest and then discuss why you find it interesting.
2. Unclear: What do you find unclear in this reading assignment? Summarize the section you find muddy or foggy and explain what you think it means but why you're still uncertain.
3. Linkable: What do you find "linkable" in this reading assignment? Something may link up with your previous reading in this class or in others. Perhaps it links up with an experience you've had or a theory you're developing. Explain the linkages you see.
4. Stimulating: What do you find stimulating or exciting in this reading assignment? Summarize the section and explain why you find it stimulating.
5. Contradictory: What do you find contradictory in this reading assignment? The passage in question may seem to contradict something else the writer(s) has said; it may contradict your reading in another class or in another text in this class; it may contradict common sense; it may contradict your experience or expectation. Explain the contradictions and try to work out what you are going to think about the ideas associated with it.
6. Debatable: What do you find debatable in this reading assignment? Who would debate this passage and what arguments would he or she bring to the debate? What do you think about the possible positions one can take on the issue discussed in the reading?
7. Practical/Useful: What do you find practical or useful in this reading assignment? It might be useful in your daily life now, in your professional life now or in the future, in your academic research as you prepare to write a paper. What specifically is useful, and how can it be used?
8. Suggest your own word for a heading.

Now that you have examined the Nurse of the Future Nursing Core Competencies, why do you think that these competencies were selected? Which 2 of the 10 competencies will be most important to your future nursing practice and why?We live in exciting times. As nurses, we are participants in a time of tremendous change in nursing and in healthcare.Massachusetts (MA) Department of Higher Education, in coordination with nurses from Massachusetts nursing practice and education settings, developed the framework for professional nursing called the Nurse of the Future (NOF) Nursing Core Competencies (NCC). Their work began in 2006 with completion of the model in 2010. Work continues today on this important document and model (Massachusetts Department of Higher Education).The Nurse of the Future Nursing Core Competencies Model includes the following competencies.Patient-centered care
Professionalism
Informatics and technology
Evidence-based practice (EBP)
Leadership
Systems-based practice
Safety
Communication
Teamwork and collaboration
Quality improvement
(Massachusetts Department of Higher Education, 2010, p. 4).We will consider each of these competencies during NR351. These form the foundation for the remaining courses.The QSEN Institute is another set of competencies for the nursing profession. The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation has funded quality and safety education for nurses (known as QSEN) since 2005, in response to the Institute of Medicine\’s recommendations for physicians and healthcare (Hood, 2014). QSEN aims to “address the challenge of preparing future nurses with the knowledge, skills, and attitudes (KSAs) necessary to continuously improve the quality and safety of the healthcare systems within which they work\” (QSEN Institute, 2014, \”About QSEN: Project overview,\” para. 1).QSEN KSAs specific to the prelicensure nurse or the graduate nurse include the following.Patient-centered care
Teamwork and collaboration
Evidence-based practice (EBP)
Quality improvement (QI)
Safety
Informatics
(QSEN Institute, 2014, “Competencies,\” para. 1)You may want to go to http://qsen.org/, and explore this website for further information regarding this important initiative in nursing today.

– 4 pages
Assignment 1: Politics – Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow
Due Week 6 and worth 200 points
Write a three to four (3-4) page paper in which the student answers the following three (3) items using headers to separate each item:
1. Discuss either two (2) civil liberties or two (2) civil rights events (past or current) that have influenced a sense of social responsibility in the American government today. Provide examples to support your answer. Note: In your response, consider how the events influenced the way state, local or national political leaders or agencies responded in a socially responsible or ethical manner toward the community.
2. Discuss two (2) media events (past or present) that have positively and or negatively influenced the public’s opinion of a government agency. Provide examples to support your answer. Note: Consider how a news story or media coverage of an event positively or negatively changed the public’s opinion (or perception) regarding how responsible a government agency should be towards meeting the needs of its customers; i.e. the American people.
3. Discuss two (2) differences between the Republican and Democratic parties that may have an ethical impact (positively or negatively) on the American people. Provide examples to support your answer. Note: Consider the different ideals, values, morals, and/or goals held by the Republican and Democratic parties, and their different views on the ethically or morally right way to govern and make the best policies for the people they serve. Determine if your example presents any type of ethical concerns for or against the public interest of the American people.
In your research, you cannot use Wikipedia, online dictionaries, Sparknotes, Cliffnotes, or any other Website do that does not qualify as an academic resource.
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 to:
• Identify informed opinions on issues and questions involving the U.S. government, national political processes, policy making, and the notion of democracy.
• Employ terminology used to study political science and American government.
• Distinguish between civil rights and civil liberties in the context of Supreme Court protection of freedom of expression.
• Develop reasoned written and spoken presentations on issues and questions involving the U.S. government and national political processes using information in the course.
• Explain how the federal system of government works.
• Explore different perspectives on issues and questions about the U.S. government and national political processes.
• Describe the importance of an informed, effective citizenship for the national government and political processes.
• Use technology and information resources to research issues in the field of U.S. government and politics.
• Write clearly and concisely about U.S. government and politics using proper writing mechanics.
Click here to view the grading rubric for this assignment.rading for this assignment will be based on answer quality, logic / organization of the paper, and language and writing skills, using the following rubricSEE more attached

120 min for game and 45 mins for preparation. it’s a marketing simulation game I can send you the link and my username and password to play. There is no limit of times you can play!You can play unlimited times and the best results will be the ease the professor keeps. The point is to be a ceo and not get fired by adjusting the price and there’s tutorial videos on how to play.
DescriptionIn this single-player simulation, students define and execute a business-to-business marketing strategy at a manufacturer for motors used in medical devices. Customers are divided into market segments based on their requirements for two key motor performance features and price. Students must analyze each market segment and decide which new customers they want to acquire while also considering the loyal customers they must retain. A successful go-to-market strategy requires careful consideration of a variety of interdependent factors. Students set a list price and then set discounts for each large market segment and for a segment of small customers who purchase through distributors. Students allocate sales and marketing resources for each targeted segment including setting the level of spending on marketing communications and market research. Students can listen to customer feedback through dynamic video interviews and gain important insights into the effectiveness of their marketing strategies. Ultimately students must achieve a sustainable revenue stream to maximize cumulative profit for the company. The second release of this simulation retains the immersive experience of the original while providing streamlined analysis tools for students and enhanced administrative features for instructors.
Learning objective:Understanding the link between marketing strategy formulation and effective execution. Using segment and customer needs analysis to make product marketing and design decisions. Understanding segmentation, targeting, and positioning. Creating a pricing strategy. Managing channel conflict and maintaining consistency across channels. Using metrics to analyze performance. Appreciating the relationships among customer satisfaction, customer buying patterns, customer loyalty, and firm profitability.
Subjects Covered:Channel conflict; Customer acquisition; Customer retention; Customer satisfaction; Market planning strategy; Market research; Market segmentation; Market share; Pricing strategy; Profitability
Setting:Geographic: United States
Industry: Orthopedics
For that assignment if I could get a screenshot of the best result just Incase I need it for proof. Thank you once again

Non Profit: Families First Weaver Gardens
1. Marketing Plan Complete a formal social marketing plan for an existing non-profit agency of your choice to help facilitate expansion and growth. The plan should not exceed 25 pages. A good starting place may be start-ups that lack resources for developing a formal marketing plan. Your role is a consultant for the agency. Students must use actual budget figures and work with the existing organizational mission (if necessary, students may consider revising the existing missions).

Identify an organization dealing with an important societal need you particularly care about. I recommend that you begin your project by looking at the websites and annual reports of nonprofit organizations to understand their organizational design, offerings, and target audiences.

In your marketing plan, you should:
1. Identify the mission and vision statements for the organization and briefly
describe basic services it has been providing during the last 6 months of operation.

2. Analyze the organizational environments:
a. Internal environments
• Review organizational goals and objectives
• Describe the organizational culture

b. External analysis
• List and briefly describe all clients, donors, volunteers, board members, and others
• Describe the competition faced by this organization (please, do research on similar local nonprofit and for profit organizations operating in the same service area)
• Point out various aspects of the current macroeconomic situation and how they may affect the organization

3. Formulate your core marketing strategy (e.g., new markets? new offerings?)

4. Describe marketing research you plan to undertake to gain an understanding of how your target audience makes decisions about changing their behavior according to your organizational desires. Based on common sense and any online information you can find, make preliminary assumptions about the character of their decision-making (e.g., who are the decision-makers? How, when, where, and why do these potential consumers use or may use the services?), latest trends in demand (is the demand for services growing or declining?) and social, cultural, and economic characteristics of consumers.

5. From you research, provide some ideas and a rationale for market segmentation.
6. Identify the ‘brand’ for your organization (name, logo, detailed positioning message).

7. Describe the marketing mix (product, price, place, promotion).
• Are you planning on developing a new product or improving the style, or packaging of your current product? What sources of data will you consider to guide your ideas for a new product?
• Price – what pricing techniques will you use?
• Based on the character of your offering and the traits of your target audiences, how will you be reaching your audiences?
• Promotion: what messages would you want to send and what media would you use?

8. How will you assess the effectiveness of marketing activities?

9. Describe the implementation plan (responsibilities, tasks, and timeline).

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This Pricing Exercise is a combination of a variety of concepts found in the text. Pricing includes many considerations – the 5 Cs of Pricing – Company, Customer, Competition, Channel, Costs.

In addition, certain companies have a particular way in which they approach pricing – some companies are profit oriented, some are competitively oriented, other companies are customer value oriented. But no matter what orientation a company is, a baseline price should be calculated from which a "what if" analysis can be done in terms of what would happen if the price is raised or lowered from that baseline.

This exercise has 3 parts. The Part 1 is a Cost-Based Pricing Model. Businesses have two major cost to be considered – Fixed Cost (FC) which is always expressed as an annual amount, and Variable Cost (VC) which is always expressed as a per unit or per item amount. Fixed Costs do not change no matter how much demand or sales forecasts change. Variable Costs change based on on how many units are forecasted to be demanded or sold.

Therefore: Total Costs = FC + Total VC (VC per unit X # of units demanded or forecasted to sell)

The steps to calculate the correct Selling Price (SP) and the Break Even Quantity (BE) are a three step process, however, we first have to calculate what I am calling a Unit Cost (UC) which is a more representative cost to base our Selling Price on because it is the Variable Cost plus some portion of the Fixed Costs. It should be noted that Unit Cost is not an accounting term – it is a marketing term. Marketers calculate a Unit Cost to base their Selling Price on. Selling Price then is the Unit Cost divided by 1 minus the return (marketers often refer to the Return as a target profit, target margin, or a return). Finally, Break Even is calculated by dividing the Fixed Costs by the Selling Price minus the Variable Costs. The Break Even quantity final answer is always rounded up no matter how small the decimal amount, since we cannot sell a part of a product. The denominator of the BE calculation (SP-VC) is the Contribution per Unit (or Contribution Margin which is an accounting term) or how much each unit or product sold contributes to the bottom line.

1. UC = VC + FC

Sales (Qty)

2. SP = UC

1 – Return

3. BE = FC

SP – VC

However, marketers rarely only want to know what the Cost-Based Selling Price would be. They want to know how much they REALLY should sell something for depending on what they are trying to do – gain market share quickly with a lower price, or capture more profit and recover investment dollars with a higher price. Of course, the law of Supply & Demand says that if I raise the Selling Price from the Cost-Based Price demand will fall; if I lower the Selling Price from the Cost-Based Price demand will increase. The question is whether the change in demand will effect the overall profitability for the product which is largely based on the elasticity of that particular product. To answer this question requires a "what if" analysis.

Once you complete the three step process as outlined above, you can then do a "what if" by calculating what will happen to overall profitability by changing the selling price up or down, taking into account that the price change will affect the overall demand or forecasted sales, and then completing the table on Part 2 of this exercise. On the table in Part 2, I have given you the potential new selling prices in column one, with the resulting demand or forecasted sales in column three. You should complete the rest of the table and answer all the questions on both Part 1 and Part 2.

Part 3 of this exercise then calculates the Elasticity (EoD) of this particular product, which is the % CHANGE IN DEMAND divided by the % CHANGE IN PRICE. The Elasticity final answer is always expressed as an absolute number. If it is < 1 the product is inelastic; if it is > 1 the product is elastic.The mathematical elasticity of the product should confirm why this product acts the way it does and helps to explain the results from the table in Part 2. Relatively inelastic products can usually be pushed to higher prices before it negatively effects profitability. Relatively elastic products can show losses at both a higher price point if demand drops so much that revenue falls, or a lower price point if demand rises so much that variable costs outstrip revenue.

You can type your answers into the document itself and then reattach it with your answers. I need to see all your work in order to give you partial credit.

500 words!!!
For apa title pageSeveral of your courses may ask you to “reflect” on readings and/or write a reflection paper or essay. The general idea is for you to read, view, or do something, and then figure out what it means to you. Some of your writing is devoted to analyzing what you read, viewed or did, and some of it is devoted to its meaning for you. In your reflection, read three essays in your text (The Norton Reader). Select from the list noted in the “Readings and Preparation” section above. Then write a reflection, using the headings below. Your reflection should be a minimum of 500 words. This assignment will also help you become accustomed to the style of essays in your text for this course. The minimum word requirement for this assignment is a bit shorter than others in the course, which are a minimum of 750 words. This difference is intentional to help you adjust to the style of work in the course. You will be reading essays throughout the course.Headings for Reflection Essay:
Introduction
In your introduction, address the readings you chose and why you selected them.
Challenges of the Readings
Under this heading, explain two or more challenges that you had while reading. These challenges can be anything from finding yourself distracted or finding a need to re-read passages. Include how you might face these challenges when you read additional essays later in the class.
Highlight of Readings
Under this heading, explain two or more highlights of the readings. What did you learn, like or discover, and what surprised you? Were there any assumptions you held before you read the essays? If so, did these assumptions change after reading them? Please elaborate.
Ask the Author
Imagine that you have an opportunity to follow up with one of these authors and ask them to tell you more. What would you ask and why?
Your Personal Account or Journal Plan
Think about what you would write about if you were to write a personal account or journal plan. What would you write about and why? How would it be different or similar to the accounts or journals you read?
Save your paper as a doc or rtf with your name and the assignment name in the file, using Last Name_Assignment. So, if your name were Alicia Jackson, and this is Reflection Essay, you would title it Jackson_Reflection. Upload your paper by clicking the “WEEK 1 ASSIGNMENT – REFLECTION ESSAY” link above.From the CLIENT:Also in the reflection essay if above each paragraph he titles in bold each item he’s talking about introduction , challenges of the readings, etc the five points he goes overReflection Essay Sabrina Rindels Brandman University LBSU 304 Liberal Arts Core Foundations Professor Lindsay Ludvigsen May 7, 2016 – for the title page