Category: Essays

All three products are sold in highly competitive markets, so the company is unable to raise its prices without losing unacceptably large numbers of customers.

The company has a very effective lean production system, so there is no beginning or ending work in process or finished-goods inventories.

Using the internet, research break-even point and costing systems. Analyze the case based on your research and what you have learned so far in the course.

Respond to the following:

Calculate the company’s overall break-even point in total sales dollars. Explain your methodology (approximately 2 pages).
Of the total fixed costs of $400,000: $20,000 could be avoided if the Velcro product were dropped, $80,000 if the Metal product were dropped, and $60,000 if the Nylon product were dropped. The remaining fixed costs of $240,000 consist of common fixed costs such as administrative salaries and rent on the factory building that could be avoided only by going out of business entirely (approximately 2 pages):
Calculate the break-even point in units for each product. Explain your methodology.
Determine the overall profit of the company if the company sells exactly the break-even quantity of each product. Present your results.
Evaluate costing systems for this company. Explain if this company should be using a job-order or process-costing system to accumulate costs (1 page).

Be sure to include your calculations in Microsoft Excel format.

Write a 5–6-page report in Word format. Apply APA standards to citation of sources.

Which of the following is a basic element of classical criminology?

Human behavior is a product of social, biological, or economic forces that can be empirically measured.

Crime exists because of a lack of norms or clear social standards.

Crime is attractive when it promises great benefits with little effort.

Crime is a product of the capitalist system.

QUESTION 2

Rational choice theorists view crime as both _________ and ________ specific.

Offense and offender

Reward and offender

Victim and offender

Offense and victim

QUESTION 3

______________ behavior is any action that departs from the social norms of society.

Deviant

Illegal

Criminal

Misdemeanor

QUESTION 4

Which was the first written criminal code?

Common Law Code

Mosaic Code

Code of Hammurabi

QUESTION 5

To address the nonreporting issue, the federal government sponsors the:

IPSR

UCR

FDIC

NCVS

QUESTION 6

____________ deterrence holds that criminal sanctions should be so powerful that known criminals will never repeat their criminal acts.

Broad

Interval

Intermediate

Specific

QUESTION 7

____________ uses multiple advances computational methods, including artificial intelligence, to analyze large data sets usually involving one or more data solutions.

Data mining

Crime mapping

Logic bombing

Trojan horsing

QUESTION 8

Criminologists look for _________ crime-rate patters to gain insight into the nature of crime.

Increasing

Decreasing

Random

Stable

QUESTION 9

In the past, how did criminologists view crime victims?

As an indirect role in a criminal incident.

As merely the passive targets of a criminal’s anger or greed.

As fully responsible for the criminal incident.

As an active role in the incident.

QUESTION 10

People who are crime victims are ___________ likely to commit crimes themselves.

Less

Equally

Not

More

QUESTION 11

People living ___________ are more likely to be vandalized.

On military bases

In rural areas

In suburban communities

In cities

QUESTION 12

Victim precipitation can be either:

Scientific or empirical

Active or passive

Encouraged or discouraged

Instigated or non-responsive

QUESTION 13

Shoplifting and vandalism are considered ________ thrills because getting away with crime is a thrilling demonstration of personal competence.

Cunning

Tricky

Sneaky

Sexy

QUESTION 14

What occurs when increased patrols in one community shift the crime to a more vulnerable neighborhood?

Diffusion

Replacement

Discouragement

Displacement

QUESTION 15

What is the repetition of criminal behavior called?

Recidivism

Retaliation

Reparation

Restitution

QUESTION 16

____________ assumes that behavioral traits may be inherited but that they may also evolve.

Sociobiology

Meta-evolution

Microbiology

Biophysics

QUESTION 17

When looking at the connection between genetics and crime, researchers have evaluated all the following except:

Parental deviance studies

Adoption studies

Twin studies

Diet studies

QUESTION 18

According to social learning theories, violence is learned through a process called

Information processing

Behavioral modeling

Sharing

Personification

QUESTION 19

One’s personality reflects a characteristic way of _____________ life’s demands and problems.

Ignoring

Adapting to

Rejecting

Manipulating

QUESTION 20

Monozygotic twins will have the same personality.

True

False

QUESTION 21

Problem behaviors typically involve family dysfunction, substance abuse, smoking, precocious sexuality and early pregnancy, educational underachievement, suicide attempts, sensation seeking, and unemployment.

True

False

QUESTION 22

The more crime a person commits, the less likely he or she is to suffer premature death.

True

False

QUESTION 23

Most young criminals desist and do not become adult offenders.

True

False

QUESTION 24

The basic premise of ___________ theory is that there is more than one path to crime and more that one class of offender.

Life course theory

Propensity theory

Trajectory theory

Critical theory

QUESTION 25

Which of the following is NOT an element of impulsivity?

Physical

Shortsighted

Verbal

Insensitiv

Imagine that you are pitching your hypothetical service-based company’s marketing plan to the Shark Tank Team for possible investment. Use a tablet, smartphone, laptop, desktop, or traditional video recorder to record a three to five (3-5) minute dynamic video in which you present your full marketing plan from Assignments 1, 2, and 3.

Note: If you are using a tablet or smartphone you will need to email the video file to yourself, then save it to a computer in order to upload to Blackboard. You may want to upload your video to a file sharing service, such as Dropbox, if your email will not let you send a large video file. Dropbox is accessible from all smartphones and tablets from the Dropbox app.

Once you are ready to upload your video to Blackboard, view the Kaltura video tutorial located here. Please use the following naming convention in the popup window for your video once it is finished uploading:

Title: Your First Name, Your Last Name – Shark Tank Investment Video Pitch
Tags: MKT500, Shark Tank
Description: First Name, Last Name – MKT500 Assignment 4 (Date Uploaded ex. 5-23-2014)

Note: Check with your professor for any additional instructions. If you do not have access to a video camera or necessary hardware to complete this assignment, please contact your professor.

Tips to prepare for your video:

Create note cards
Practice in front of a mirror and / or friends
Review materials thoroughly
Be persuasive
Be professional
Be creative
Have fun!

Create a two to five (2-5) minute video presentation in which you:

Present the major points of your marketing plan.
Project your voice in order to clearly convey your ideas.
Present in a professional manner.
Use technology (e.g., i.e. audio quality, video quality, naming conventions) to convey ideas.
Use voice inflection and proper gramma

Bill is 48 years old and has repaired lawn mowers in his small shop in Fairview, Tennessee for the last eight years. He is about 30 miles from Nashville, Tennessee, and he is just 12 miles from Dickson, Tennessee. He has deliberately kept his business small to control costs and complexity. Last week, he received a bulletin from this leading tractor manufacturer that it is introducing a new model with a new computer-based monitoring system. Although he has dealt with limited applications of computer chips in these machines, this is a much more sophisticated application. He knows that several of his customers own this brand of mower and that they are likely to buy the new models. He wants to learn how to repair these computer-based monitoring systems. In the bulletin, the company announced a limited number of seminars at the manufacturing plant in Horicon, Wisconsin. It has also announced a series of Webinars and online training sessions for the new innovation. There is also a manufacturer’s service manual for the new models. Bill cannot take time off or afford to travel to the seminars.

Answer the following questions based on the scenario:

What do you think Bill should do to construct a learning plan? If he were to write one out, formally, what might it look like? How would you express his learning needs? What would his terminal performance objective look like?
What kinds of self-motivation does Bill have? Discuss ways in which Bill will apply elements of the affective domain in this learning project.
How can Bill apply the cognitive concept of metacognition and its extension, reflexivity, from constructivist theory? How do Piaget’s ideas on assimilation and accommodation apply to this example of adult learning?
What other elements or characteristics of constructivist learning theory might he apply here? How can he learn what he needs to learn as quickly and as thoroughly as possible?

Use research, and APA format to construct your response. Your paper should include a title page, abstract and reference page along with the content

In this assignment, you will compare and contrast assessment and evaluation. You must complete the following:

Give an example, from classroom or online applications other than this course, of assessment, then compare and contrast that with an example of evaluation. Discuss the defining characteristics of each type, assessment and evaluation, and ways in which teachers and trainers use each one in instructional design and delivery.
Give examples of formative and summative assessment and discuss similarities and differences. Discuss the purposes of each type of assessment, during the instructional design process and during the delivery process.
Using examples, discuss similarities and differences between formative evaluation and summative evaluation. Discuss the purposes of each, and how teachers and trainers use them in practical settings. How are these two types used in the instructional design process? How are they used, and what issues can they help the instructor avoid or resolve during the delivery process? Provide examples to illustrate.

Use peer-reviewed academic sources to support your thoughts and ideas. Do not just give answers from the sources. To demonstrate your understanding, answer the questions in your own words and using sources as backup to justify your ideas. The paper must be completed in APA manuscript format

What advice would you give to a CEO who is intent on moving forward with a strategic acquisition that carries with it a high level of risk?

Discuss specific ways in which the managers at the firm can implement your advice. Use the readings and materials from class, along with examples of managers at firms you know or have read about in the news to respond to this discussion question

Except for cases of original jurisdiction, cases heard by the Supreme Court must first go though the state and federal courts. Only 1% of petitions for certiorari, asking the Supreme Court to review a lower court case decision, will be selected by the court for review. Often the court will try to address cases in which courts of appeal decisions are at odds with each other or the Supreme Court’s decision will have broad legal implications. Through the years the Supreme Court has also stepped in to settle disputes between the states themselves.

Discussion

On April 28, 2015, the U.S. Supreme Court heard a case argument regarding gay marriage, for the first time, in the Obergefell v. Hodges. This case was a consolidation of 4 appealsfrom the Sixth Circuit Appeals Court (cases orginated from Ohio, Tennessee, Michigan, and Kentucky).

On Tuesday, the Justices asked both sides to answer/argue this two questions:

1. Does the Fourteenth Amendment require a state to license a marriage between two people of the same sex?

2. Does the Fourteeth Amendment require a state to recognize a marriage between two people of the same sex when their marriage was lawfully licensed and performed out-of-state?

Choose one of the topics below and respond to it for this assignment. You must respond to all parts of your chosen topic.

Format: 12 point font. Times New Roman font, double spaced. Minimum 1 full page. Paragraphs, complete sentences, good grammar should be a part of your paper. Vulgarities will not be tolerated.

Topics to pick from:

1. Respond to any topics brought up in the textbook or a news article related to diversity.

2. How did your family immigrate to the United States? How did they end up in the area they live in today?

3. Write a set of instructions explaining how to become a “typical” student at your college. Focus on clothing, possessions, behavior, and customs that would have to be adopted to belong to your college’s dominant culture.

4. Trace the process of how you became a member of a particular community within your town or school (a social clique, social organization, activity, etc.).

5. Consider the way the media perpetuates negative stereotypes. Think of examples from movies, TV shows, or newspapers that characterize persons from specific groups. Discuss whether you think the portrayals are accurate or whether you believe they misrepresent reality.

6. Discuss an example of your own stereotype or one about which you have read that illustrates an instance of misunderstanding that occurs when the signals sent by a person of one culture are misinterpreted by a person from another culture.

7. How do you think you would have to change if you moved from a rural to an urban areas, or vice versa? What changes would you consider to be negative or positive?

8. How have your parents’ attitudes and experiences helped to shape your ideas about the value of work and/or education?

9. What kinds of role models are important to children in your community? What are different categories of role models, and how do they influence young people

In Descartes’ argument for the existence of the body, what guarantees its independence from the mind and what guarantees that one’s perception of it is not a mere product of some deceitful schemes? Explain your answers. Give accounts of Descartes’ explanation for mind-body interaction and the problems with such an explanation.

2. For Descartes, what form of knowledge can be proven as incorrigible through methodical doubt? Why is it incorrigible? What is the relevance of such proof in establishing the existence of the mind as something that exists independently of the body? How can we use his proof of its incorrigibility as an illustration for the rationalist claim that reason (not the senses) is the sufficient guide to truth? How can the foundations of scientific and mathematical knowledge be considered corrigible through methodical doubt?

3. In your own words, briefly state Papineau’s causal argument for materialism. What is the abstract claim that he considers to be a necessary presupposition of his argument? Why is it important for him to presuppose such a claim? What is his general response to any objection that denies any of his premises?

4. Give an account of Jackson’s possible objection to Papineau’s abstract claim. Based on Jackson’s knowledge argument, give an account of his case for his objection. Critics of Jackson’s epiphenomenalism generally point out that there is something counterintuitive about the claim that mental states do not causally interact with physical states. Give an account of Jackson’s response to such critics.

5. Give an account of Kant’s critique of rationalism and empiricism. Give an account of Kant’s epistemological theory that, in some sense, attempts to reconcile rationalism and empiricism. Rationalists generally argue that, since there are principles that are universally agreed upon by all humans, such principles must have been based on innate ideas. Give an account of Locke’s response to such argument and his case for the sensible or experiential ground of the use of reason

Choose one of the topics below and respond to it for this assignment. You must respond to all parts of your chosen topic.

Format: 12 point font. Times New Roman font, double spaced. Minimum 1 full page. Paragraphs, complete sentences, good grammar should be a part of your paper. Vulgarities will not be tolerated.

Topics to pick from:

1. Respond to any topics brought up in the textbook or a news article related to diversity.

2. How did your family immigrate to the United States? How did they end up in the area they live in today?

3. Write a set of instructions explaining how to become a “typical” student at your college. Focus on clothing, possessions, behavior, and customs that would have to be adopted to belong to your college’s dominant culture.

4. Trace the process of how you became a member of a particular community within your town or school (a social clique, social organization, activity, etc.).

5. Consider the way the media perpetuates negative stereotypes. Think of examples from movies, TV shows, or newspapers that characterize persons from specific groups. Discuss whether you think the portrayals are accurate or whether you believe they misrepresent reality.

6. Discuss an example of your own stereotype or one about which you have read that illustrates an instance of misunderstanding that occurs when the signals sent by a person of one culture are misinterpreted by a person from another culture.

7. How do you think you would have to change if you moved from a rural to an urban areas, or vice versa? What changes would you consider to be negative or positive?

8. How have your parents’ attitudes and experiences helped to shape your ideas about the value of work and/or education?

9. What kinds of role models are important to children in your community? What are different categories of role models, and how do they influence young people?