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Illustrate any similarities and differences in the cultures of each country.

am willing to pay $15.00 I only need 750 words.

APA format 700 – 900 words

Research daily, cultural customs

Write a 700- to 800 word paper on the daily, cultural customs in your selected countries. Include the following:

The two countries we have selected: Costa Rica and Columbia

Illustrate any similarities and differences in the cultures of each country.
Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines.

Reference only need two

It is due on Saturday Dec 05, 201

How was it different from the piece you liked? What specifically about it do you not enjoy?

You must attend a concert outside of class, and write a 2-4 page paper about it. You may not use the same concert for your oral report and written report.

The concert must be Western Art Music of one of the genres we cover throughout the class. Consult your syllabus for genres we will cover, or ask me if you are unsure if a concert is acceptable.

Your report should include the name of the concert you went to, where it was held, the type of ensemble you listened to and the name of the performer or group. Name of your favorite piece or movement and describe it in as much detail of possible using your knowledge of beat, rhythm, meter, pitch range, timbre, dynamics and instruments. What about it did you like and why did it appeal to you? Then describe a little bit about your least favorite work on the program. How was it different from the piece you liked? What specifically about it do you not enjoy? (hint: “It was boring” is not a good answer.) What similarities, if any, did it have to the piece you liked?

I highly recommend you take the time to completely understand the assignment before attending the concert, and take notes specifically related to what you are supposed to report on while you are at the concert. You should be familiar with this assignment from your oral report. Your written report will be very similar to your oral report, but it should be more formal in tone. Remember to write clearly and in a style appropriate to an academic paper.

Paper Formatting Requirements:

2-4 pages

double spaced

12-point font

one-inch margins

You will be graded on:

grammar, relevancy to the prompt, understanding of the subject matter, clear and effective communication and formatting

What are the most important things you are taking from this course that will shape your future and enable you to make a positive difference?

ndividual Reflection: Blueprint for Professional and Personal Growth

Reflect on the process of creating goals, and your ideas on becoming a more effective leader, for the BPPG in the previous courses of this program Improving Business Performance.

As in previous courses, you will now add to your Blueprint for Professional and Personal Growth. You should develop your BPPG from your learning in this course and design it to help you become a leader who can support learning organizations and who can demonstrate personal mastery and systems thinking for enhanced organizational performance.

Consider the following as you complete this Individual Reflection:

What can you do now to integrate the experiences and insights you had in this course with your personal and professional development goals?
What are the most important things you are taking from this course that will shape your future and enable you to make a positive difference?

All components of the Individual Reflection should be turned in as one document:

1. The executive summary: Write an Executive Summary of the course to date (2–3 paragraphs) that addresses the following questions:

Which content and assignments in this course most helped you to better understand how to foster a culture of organizational learning and how to apply systems thinking to achieve enhanced organizational performance within your organization (or one with which you are familiar)? What impact have the assignments had (or will have) on the value you will bring to your role within an organization?
How have the content and assignments changed the way you think of the role of systems thinking, constraint management and performance within the organization?
How can the knowledge you gained in this course enable you to make a positive difference?
In what ways do you think the knowledge and skills covered in this course can influence positive social change within an organization, community, or more broadly?

How have the content and assignments continued to shape your goals?

2. In his book, The Fifth Discipline, Peter Senge talks about how important “Personal Mastery” is to the health of both you as an individual and leader and to organizations. Read Chapter 8, “Personal Mastery” from The Fifth Discipline, then respond to the prompts below. (Note: Review all of your previous BPPG entries and analysis, the concepts from Chapter 8, and the concepts from this course).

Then, complete the following:

Present your own “personal vision” as Senge describes the term on pages 136-138. Note that this personal vision goes far beyond traditional goals and objectives.
In what ways does your personal vision relate to your ability to lead positive social change within your organization, your community, or more broadly?

Identify and discuss one way, at minimum, in which your experiences to date in the MBA program have helped you understand, craft or move towards your personal vision. If none have occurred, now that you have that vision more formally defined, review the course descriptions of the upcoming courses in your MBA program and identify those that you think will help contribute towards your personal vision.

3. Your action plan: Write a detailed action plan for one new goal for professional and personal development (you will continue to build on the list of goals you started in your previous course). These action plans should include the following:

Your specific goal for professional and personal development with an explanation as to why you selected it. Be sure to provide concrete and specific examples of why the goal is important, the extent to which this goal enables you to be an agent for positive social change, and the personal or professional value you expect from achieving the goal, and how the goal relates to the resources you reviewed in the course.
Hint: If you want to expand upon a plan or initiative you have already proposed in a previous week, feel free to so.
At least two objectives for the goal you have identified. Provide a rationale that explains how your objectives support the goal.

Guidance on Assignment Length: Your BPPG, including the Executive Summary (which should be 2-3 paragraphs in length and no more than one page single spaced), your personal vision, and your action plan should be 3-6 pages total (1.5-3 pages total if single spaced).

Summarize the content of your written work, as it relates to Ethnocentrism.

Select from one of the following less-developed societies: Kenya, Philippines, Ghana or Malaysia. Research this country to gain a better understanding of their cultural perspectives.

2. Select one specific cultural practice of the United States. Describe this U.S. cultural practice through the lens of the selected society. The U.S. cultural practice could relate to any of the following: transportation, food, clothing, jobs, sports, politics, government, etc. Describe the selected topic through the lens of an outsider – from the selected society, using descriptive language – the descriptive language of the Nacirema Paper will serve as an example.

3. Common U.S. cultural language of the selected cultural practice CANNOT be used – apply descriptive terms only – view the topics through the lens of the selected society.

4. Be creative, write a story about an individual from the selected society and his/her first exposure to the selected U.S. cultural practice.

5. Summarize the content of your written work, as it relates to Ethnocentrism

Required: Three page paper, 12 point font, One-inch margins

In what ways do you think the knowledge and skills covered in this course can influence positive social change within an organization, community, or more broadly?

Reflect on the process of creating goals, and your ideas on becoming a more effective leader, for the BPPG in the previous courses of this program Improving Business Performance.

As in previous courses, you will now add to your Blueprint for Professional and Personal Growth. You should develop your BPPG from your learning in this course and design it to help you become a leader who can support learning organizations and who can demonstrate personal mastery and systems thinking for enhanced organizational performance.

Consider the following as you complete this Individual Reflection:

What can you do now to integrate the experiences and insights you had in this course with your personal and professional development goals?
What are the most important things you are taking from this course that will shape your future and enable you to make a positive difference?

All components of the Individual Reflection should be turned in as one document:

1. The executive summary: Write an Executive Summary of the course to date (2–3 paragraphs) that addresses the following questions:

Which content and assignments in this course most helped you to better understand how to foster a culture of organizational learning and how to apply systems thinking to achieve enhanced organizational performance within your organization (or one with which you are familiar)? What impact have the assignments had (or will have) on the value you will bring to your role within an organization?
How have the content and assignments changed the way you think of the role of systems thinking, constraint management and performance within the organization?
How can the knowledge you gained in this course enable you to make a positive difference?
In what ways do you think the knowledge and skills covered in this course can influence positive social change within an organization, community, or more broadly?

How have the content and assignments continued to shape your goals?

2. In his book, The Fifth Discipline, Peter Senge talks about how important “Personal Mastery” is to the health of both you as an individual and leader and to organizations. Read Chapter 8, “Personal Mastery” from The Fifth Discipline, then respond to the prompts below. (Note: Review all of your previous BPPG entries and analysis, the concepts from Chapter 8, and the concepts from this course).

Then, complete the following:

Present your own “personal vision” as Senge describes the term on pages 136-138. Note that this personal vision goes far beyond traditional goals and objectives.
In what ways does your personal vision relate to your ability to lead positive social change within your organization, your community, or more broadly?

Identify and discuss one way, at minimum, in which your experiences to date in the MBA program have helped you understand, craft or move towards your personal vision. If none have occurred, now that you have that vision more formally defined, review the course descriptions of the upcoming courses in your MBA program and identify those that you think will help contribute towards your personal vision.

3. Your action plan: Write a detailed action plan for one new goal for professional and personal development (you will continue to build on the list of goals you started in your previous course). These action plans should include the following:

Your specific goal for professional and personal development with an explanation as to why you selected it. Be sure to provide concrete and specific examples of why the goal is important, the extent to which this goal enables you to be an agent for positive social change, and the personal or professional value you expect from achieving the goal, and how the goal relates to the resources you reviewed in the course.
Hint: If you want to expand upon a plan or initiative you have already proposed in a previous week, feel free to so.
At least two objectives for the goal you have identified. Provide a rationale that explains how your objectives support the goal.

Guidance on Assignment Length: Your BPPG, including the Executive Summary (which should be 2-3 paragraphs in length and no more than one page single spaced), your personal vision, and your action plan should be 3-6 pages total (1.5-3 pages total if single spaced).

Describe the key elements of a solid emergency response program.

For this assignment, you are required to read the article entitled “HazMat Emergencies: Decontamination and Victim Chain of Survival,” by Gunderson, Helikson, and Heffner (2014), and write a review.

 

Your review must include the following:

 Summarize the key points presented in the article.

 Describe the key elements of a solid emergency response program.

 Discuss why proper decontamination of victims is important.

 Discuss your opinion or what you can conclude from the article.

 

 

Your response must be at least 800 words in length. All sources used, including this article, must be referenced. Paraphrased and/or quoted materials must have accompanying in-text and reference citations in APA format.

Write a 1000-1200 word APA formatted paper which develop the strategies used to execute the project.

Write a 1000-1200 word APA formatted paper which develop the strategies used to execute the project.

Include the following:

Strategies for management of human, physical, and financial resources, including the following:
Temporary resources
Permanent resources
Work plan management (deliverables management)
Quality assurance strategies
Communication strategies
Documentation management strategies
Change request management strategies
Contingency plans

Develop the strategies used to monitor the project.

Address the following when developing your monitoring strategy:

Schedule
Budget
Critical path
Resource levels
Change requests
Scope creep

Click the Assignment Files tab to submit your 1000-1200 word APA formatted paper and updated project plan template assignment.

What led to the merger? Why did the merger take place?

For this portion of your course project, you will start to explore the actual merger between the companies. In 2-3 pages analyze and answer the following for each of your three identified mergers:

  • What led to the merger? Why did the merger take place?
  • Which company initiated it?
  • What are the initial goals of the merger?
  • Any other pertinent details of the merger.

Your submitted assignment should include at least 3 resources, correct spelling, punctuation, and grammar. Be sure to cite your sources per APA formatting.

Compare and contrast the methods of disaster recovery and business continuity.

Create a hypothetical organization with details including geographic location(s), number of employees in each location, primary business functions, operational and technology details, potential threats to the business and its technology, and anything else that you believe is relevant to the business.

Assume this organization is lacking in its contingency planning efforts and requires assistance in ensuring these efforts are appropriately addressed to increase its overall security and preparedness posture.

Write a ten to fifteen (10-15) page paper in which you:

Provide an overview of the organization and indicate why contingency planning efforts are needed and how these efforts could benefit the business.
Develop a full contingency plan for the organization. Include all subordinate functions / sub plans, including BIA, IRP, DRP, and BCP efforts.
Determine the policies and procedures that would be needed for all contingency planning efforts. Detail the role of the policy / procedure, and explain how each would help achieve the goals of these efforts.
Detail the processes to utilize in order to fully implement the contingency plan and its components, and explain the efforts to consider in maintaining the plans.
Create a hypothetical incident scenario where the contingency planning efforts would need to be utilized and detail: a. How the plan is sufficiently equipped to handle the incident. b. a timeline for the incident response and recovery efforts.
Identify any ethical concerns that are specific to this organization and its incident response personnel (especially the CP Team Leader), and explain how to plan for these concerns.
Use at least five (5) quality resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and similar Websites do not qualify as quality resources.

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.
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:

Explain risk management in the context of information security.
Develop a disaster recovery plan for an organization.
Summarize the various types of disasters, response and recovery methods.
Compare and contrast the methods of disaster recovery and business continuity.
Explain and develop a business continuity plan to address unforeseen incidents.•Describe crisis management guidelines and procedures.
Describe detection and decision-making capabilities in incident response.
Develop techniques for different disaster scenarios.
Evaluate the ethical concerns inherent in disaster recovery scenarios.
Use technology and information resources to research issues in disaster recovery.
Write clearly and concisely about disaster recovery topics using proper writing mechanics and technical style conventions

Describe at least two (2) perspectives that need to be closely monitored within the contract.

 

This assignment consists of five (5) parts:

     Part 1: Organization Chart

     Part 2: Request for Proposal (RFP) Plan

     Part 3: Physical Security Plan

     Part 4: Enterprise Information Security Compliance Program

     Part 5: Risk Management Plan

Imagine that you have been recently promoted to serve as Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) for a Fortune 500 organization. This organization has known brand products across the world and expects top-secret methods for safeguarding proprietary information on its recipes and product lines. The Board of Directors request that their information security strategy be upgraded to allow greater opportunities of secure cloud collaboration between suppliers and resellers of their products. Another concern they have is the recent number of hacktivist attacks that have caused the network to fail across the enterprise. Their concern extends to making sure that they have controlled methods for accessing secured physical areas within their various regional facilities.

For your new position, you will be responsible for developing standards, methods, roles, and recommendations that will set the new IT security path for the organization. The existing organization has limited experience in supporting an enhanced level of IT security; therefore, you may need to outsource certain security services.

Additionally, you may create and / or assume all necessary assumptions needed for the completion of this assignment.

Write an eight to twelve (8-12) page paper in which you provide the following deliverables:

Part 1: Organization Chart

1. Use Visio or an Open Source alternative, such as Dia, to:

a. Create an organization chart in which you:

i.   Illustrate the roles that will be required to ensure design, evaluation, implementation, and management of security programs

              for the organization.

ii.  Within your organizational chart, clearly identify the reporting structure for roles such as IT Security Compliance Officer,

 

              Security Manager, CIO, CISO, IT Security Engineer, Privacy Security Professional, and IT Procurement Specialist.

iii. List the types of resources required to fulfill the each forensic duty of the organization below each of the roles you identified.

iv. Align your organization chart to reflect the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Essential Body of Knowledge’s three (3)

 

             areas of information security: physical security professional, privacy professional, and procurement professional. Provide

 

             comments and comparisons on how your organizational chart fosters these three (3) values.

Part 2: Request for Proposal (RFP) Plan

2. Develop a Request for Proposal (RFP) plan to solicit qualified vendors that could partner with your internal team to deliver optimum

 

    IT service delivery. The RFP Plan should contain qualifying criteria of potential vendors and the responsibilities of the vendor once

 

    the contract is awarded. As part of the plan, you must:

a. Describe at least two (2) perspectives that need to be closely monitored within the contract.

b. Give your perspective on at least two (2) methods that could be used to evaluate and develop a qualified trusted supplier list.

Part 3: Physical Security Plan

3. Recommend a physical security plan that could be used to protect sensitive areas such as telecom rooms, employee only areas,

 

    and manufacturing facilities in which you:

a. Include at least three (3) specific methods.

Part 4: Enterprise Information Security Compliance Program

4. Establish an enterprise information security compliance program that addresses the concerns of the board of directors of the

 

    organization in which you:

a. Describe specific plans and control objectives that could be adopted to address the known issues.

b. Suggest at least three (3) information security policies that could be developed and practiced within the organization for data

 

        security assurance.

c. Outline the steps you would take to define the security needs of the organization in terms of duties, staffing, training, and

 

        processes.

Part 5: Risk Management Plan

5. Develop a risk management plan in which you:

a. Describe at least three (3) possible risk management efforts that could be used to assess threats and unknown issues.

b. Determine why defining priorities is an important part of the process when enumerating and having efficient risk control

 

         measures.

c. Suggest specific technical and management controls that could be enacted in order to monitor risks accurately.

6. Use at least three (3) quality resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and similar Websites do not qualify as quality

 

    resources.

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.
  • 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 Visio or one of its equivalents such as Dia. The completed diagrams / charts must be imported into the Word document before the paper is submitted.

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

  • Describe and apply the 14 areas of common practice in the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Essential Body of Knowledge.
  • Describe best practices in cybersecurity.
  • Describe physical security plans and processes.
  • Evaluate the ethical concerns inherent in cybersecurity and how these concerns affect organizational policies.
  • Explain legal and regulatory compliance practices.
  • Explain risk management plans and policies.
  • Describe physical security plans and processes.
  • Develop a cybersecurity plan that incorporates the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Essential Body of Knowledge.
  • Identify the strategic management issues in cybersecurity planning and response.
  • Explain data security competencies to include turning policy into practice.
  • Compare and contrast the functional roles of an organization in the context of cybersecurity.
  • Identify and analyze the role of the Chief Information Officer, Information Security Officer, and IT Security Compliance Officer in the context of cybersecurity.
  • Use technology and information resources to research issues in cybersecurity.
  • Write clearly and concisely about topics associated with cybersecurity using proper writing mechanics and technical style conventions