Category: Essays

This discussion question has two parts.

Find the Accounts Receivable (may also be called Trade Receivables) for your selected company. How much is the “net amount”? This is the amount after deducting the Allowance for Uncollectible Accounts (this can have some other names).
How much is the “gross amount”? If this information is not shown on the Balance Sheet, you should be able to find it in the notes that follow the financial statements. Do you think the Allowance for Uncollectible Accounts is a reasonable estimate of the uncollectible accounts? Why

Summarize the federal statutes that protect an employee, under certain circumstances, from being discharged or disciplined for refusing to before an assigned task. Provide approximately 200-300 words in your resposnse and a citation for your source materail. APA format

Describe and discuss the employee rights under the OSH Act and its implementing regualtions. Provide approximately 200-300 words in your resposnse and a citation for your source materail. APA forma

What reasons did opponents of the war give for their opposition to the United States involvement in South Vietnam’s civil war? did the U.S. aid South Vietnam?

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1. Review your notes for Isserman and Kazin, “Why Did the United States Fight in Vietnam?” and for my lecture about the Cold War and the Vietnam War (The Vietnam War, Part 1 week). Outline for yourself an answer to this question: • Why did the U.S. aid South Vietnam? 2. Write the first paragraph of the assignment in response to the question. Your topic sentence needs to be a direct answer to the question and might be: The United States aided South Vietnam for several reasons. You do not have to use this example sentence. To write the rest of the paragraph, you need to supply evidence from the Isserman-Kazin article and from my lecture. To do this you must: • Identify the source of your information by beginning a sentence like this: Historians Maurice Isserman and Michael Kazin write that the United States aided South Vietnam because or Historian Robert Morrow explains that the United States aided South Vietnam because. • For the sentences that follow this one, you do not need to identify your source as long as you are still drawing on Isserman and Kazin or Morrow, but, if and when you switch to your other source, you need to identify the source in a similar manner to above. • You need to explain the evidence in a way that makes it obvious how the evidence relates to the topic sentence you have written. • Your paragraph should be at least five sentences in length, including the topic sentence. 3. Review your notes for the four documents we read in Takin’ It to the Streets: • George Skakel, “One Soldier’s View: Vietnam Letters” • Paul Potter, “The Incredible War” • Martin Luther King, Jr., “Declaration of Independence from the War in Vietnam” • John Kerry, “Vietnam Veterans Against the War” Outline for yourself an answer to this question: • What reasons did opponents of the war give for their opposition to the United States involvement in South Vietnam’s civil war? 4. Write the second paragraph of the assignment in response to the question. Your topic sentence needs to be a direct answer to the question. The more of these four critics of the war that you can include in your paragraph the better. As you bring in reasons for their opposition, you must make it clear which of the men is making the argument that you are explaining. You also must make it clear how the reasons fit with your topic sentence. This second paragraph also should be at least five sentences in length, including the topic sentence. 5. Type up your two paragraphs and be sure that they conform to these rules: • They must be typed, double-spaced, with your name at the top of the first page. • They must be written entirely in your own words. USE NO QUOTATIONS. • They must not include any information taken from any source other than those assigned in the class. USE NO INTERNET SOURCES TO WRITE THIS ASSIGNMENT. 6. You must submit your paper on Blackboard: • The paper is due by 11:00 p.m. on October 27 (November 2 for the Monday evening class) • Submit your paper in a format compatible with Microsoft Word for Mac 2011. Note: Rich Text Format is a common format that is compatible with this standard. Please avoid using PDF or Apple Pages formats if you possibly can. • The link for submitting it is under the Writing Assignments section in a folder labeled “Vietnam Assignment.” In that folder is a link labeled “Submit the Vietnam Assignment.” • If something goes wrong submitting it on Blackboard, e-mail me a copy as an MS Word file before the deadline. Problems with Blackboard are not an excuse to submit the paper late. • This paper will be graded on a 50-point scale and that score will count toward the 180-point total for the Writing Assignments part of the course grade. • The grades of all late papers will be lowered two full letter grades (for example, an A paper becomes a C paper if it is late). And I will not accept the papers more than one week late. • Papers that include passages plagiarized from the Internet, another student’s paper, or any other source will receive a zero (no credit). Papers that use information from the Internet will receive a 20 point penalty

A large, fast-food chain unveiled a new touch screen register for its franchises. Each cashier was assigned a user id and password combination to log in to the register. The system allowed the incorrect password to be entered four (4) times before the register would lock and require a manager to unlock it with a key card. To prevent unauthorized access, the registers would lock after three (3) minutes if the screen was not touched. When the register locked, only the cashier who was logged in prior to it locking could unlock it without a system restart.

After a few days in operation, restaurant managers started complaining about the amount of time they were spending unlocking the registers. Some cashiers were forgetting their user Id and password, so other cashiers would log in for them. It also seemed that the button layout made it easy for the cashiers to key in the incorrect password. The managers also complained that cashiers would leave for a break or end their shift and forget to log out of the locked register. The managers would have to reboot the system, a three to five (3-5) minute process in order for the next cashier to log in. Additionally, managers noticed that grease was building up on the touch screens, making them less responsive.

Write a five to eight (5-8) page paper in which you:

Analyze the new system and determine the design issues with this new system.

Describe how you would correct the design issues with the system to make the restaurant managers happy.
Create a design plan that:
Lists and explains the tasks associated with improving this interface.
Contains at least six (6) tasks.
Includes realistic time estimates for each task to be completed.
Analyzes the development of the system in your plan.
Analyzes the testing of the system in your plan.
Analyzes the implementation of the system in your plan.
Examine how this system balanced security and usability, and explain the challenges of incorporating system security and system usability into a design.
Suggest changes that could be made to the security of this system to still meet security objectives but make the system more usable.
Use Microsoft Visio or an open source alternative, Dia, to create a graphical representation of your proposed interface. Note: The graphically depicted solution is not included in the required page length.
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. 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 Excel, Visio, MS Project, or one of their equivalents such as Open Project, Dia, and OpenOffice. The completed diagrams/charts must be imported into the Word document before the paper is submittedA large, fast-food chain unveiled a new touch screen register for its franchises. Each cashier was assigned a user id and password combination to log in to the register. The system allowed the incorrect password to be entered four (4) times before the register would lock and require a manager to unlock it with a key card. To prevent unauthorized access, the registers would lock after three (3) minutes if the screen was not touched. When the register locked, only the cashier who was logged in prior to it locking could unlock it without a system restart.

After a few days in operation, restaurant managers started complaining about the amount of time they were spending unlocking the registers. Some cashiers were forgetting their user Id and password, so other cashiers would log in for them. It also seemed that the button layout made it easy for the cashiers to key in the incorrect password. The managers also complained that cashiers would leave for a break or end their shift and forget to log out of the locked register. The managers would have to reboot the system, a three to five (3-5) minute process in order for the next cashier to log in. Additionally, managers noticed that grease was building up on the touch screens, making them less responsive.

Write a five to eight (5-8) page paper in which you:

Analyze the new system and determine the design issues with this new system.

Describe how you would correct the design issues with the system to make the restaurant managers happy.
Create a design plan that:
Lists and explains the tasks associated with improving this interface.
Contains at least six (6) tasks.
Includes realistic time estimates for each task to be completed.
Analyzes the development of the system in your plan.
Analyzes the testing of the system in your plan.
Analyzes the implementation of the system in your plan.
Examine how this system balanced security and usability, and explain the challenges of incorporating system security and system usability into a design.
Suggest changes that could be made to the security of this system to still meet security objectives but make the system more usable.
Use Microsoft Visio or an open source alternative, Dia, to create a graphical representation of your proposed interface. Note: The graphically depicted solution is not included in the required page length.
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. 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 Excel, Visio, MS Project, or one of their equivalents such as Open Project, Dia, and OpenOffice. The completed diagrams/charts must be imported into the Word document before the paper is submitted

Why is donald trump better than marco rubio for president?

Write a 1000-1200 word APA formatted paper which continues to develop the project budget for your project proposal.

Include the following:

Identify available resources (consider subcontractors)
Create a labor budget
Createa capital budget
Align the schedule and scope to the labor and capital budget

Develop the risk management plan for your project proposal.

Address the following:

Identify internal and external risks
Define appropriate budget of contingencies for risks identified.

(2) Update and Submit: Your project plan template

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

This is an informal essay that is written in casual language. Expand upon it based on your own critical thinking skills, life experiences, personal opinions, and the class readings.

1. Write a 2page essay On the seven intelligence’s described by Howard Gardner in The Theory of Multiple Intelligences. Format in MLA include at least one reference.

2. Write a 2page essay: Plato’s “The Allegory of the Cave.” Format in MLA include at least one reference

You are the hospital administrator in a medium-sized, urban, for-profit hospital that caters to middle-income groups. You wonder if patients’ satisfaction with the hospital stay will increase significantly if they are given better and more flexible meal options. You decide to conduct a research study to find the answer. The first step is to design the study.

Design a descriptive study to investigate if better meal options will increase patient satisfaction. Include the following elements of design:

Develop a research question or purpose of the study
Selection of subjects for study (what is the sample)
Assignment of subjects to experimental or control groups
Study time period
Type of data to be gathered
Measures of meal options and of patient satisfaction
Method of data collection
Guidelines for data interpretation

After you complete building the study design, list three design elements you considered in your study that were not readily obvious in the one you read last week

The purpose of this activity is to apply learning from Module 7 to ethical issues in organizational communication.

Review the following codes of ethics:
The IABC Code of Ethics. International Association of Business Communicators (IABC) website. Retrieved from

http://www.iabc.com/about/code.htm
The IMC Code of Ethics. Institute of Management Consultants (IMC) website. Retrieved from

http://www.imcusa.org/?page=ETHICSCODE

Discuss how the codes apply to information presented in the Module 7 reading assignment. For example, what particular aspect of the codes addresses ethical responsibilities to stakeholders such as employees, clients, or the public?

Your research should be documented by citing at least five credible sources, such as a newspaper, a biographic article, book, or website. To assist you in your research, the library has the following tutorials and links for you to use:

Getting Started with Your Research: https://my.excelsior.edu/group/library/get-started-with-research
Frequently Asked Questions: https://my.excelsior.edu/group/library/faq
Research Databases: https://my.excelsior.edu/group/library/articles-and-research-databases

Communication and Mass Media Complete, listed alphabetically, fifth down the list

Be sure to check your essay for grammar and spelling errors before you submit it. SmartThinking—www.smarthinking.com—is available to assist you with your writing.

Your essay should be 350–500 words in length, single spaced, and in APA form

Question:How would you teach the abortion issue in medical school? Are there differences between a physician refusing to perform an abortion and a physician refusing to participate in assisted suicide? Consider medial reasons for abortion for mother and/or child. Also consider the quality of life and rationale for the person wishing to end their life. Defend your answer and research all recent legislation on both.

You are required to have at least 3 academic references, cited in-text and referenced in proper APA format. Initial discussion responses must be a minimum of 500 words or more