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Write a white paper on a company of your choice and discuss the market segmentation within that industry along with the target market for the company and the selection process for that target market.

Required Elements:

No more than 2100 words
Include demographic, psychographic, geographic, and behavioral characteristics for the selected company.
A positioning statement for the company with careful consideration of their brand and strategy
Paper is consistent with APA guidelines.

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I am thinking of Disney

Research the future of policing and find two future trends in policing of interest to you. Examples include the following:

Augmented reality technology
Radio Frequency Identification systems
Autonomous vehicles
Wearable computers
Predictive policing
Drone technology and aerial surveillance
Biometrics
GPS tracking (geo tracking and metadata devices)

Locate at least two articles on each trend.

Create an 8- to 10-slide Microsoft® PowerPoint® proposal for implementing the two trends at an agency. Include speaker notes of at least 100 words for each slide. Include the following in your proposal presentation:

Describe the trends.
Explain the pros and cons of implementing the trends.
Provide examples of how the trends are implemented at other agencies.

Format your proposal consistent with APA guidelines

Despite the documented challenges that the U.S. health care system faces, it also enjoys a number of advantages over other systems around the world.

Choose 2 other countries from around the world and discuss the strengths of the U.S. health care system as compared to these countries from an administrator’s and a third-party payer’s perspectives.
In your answer, be sure to not only discuss each strength, but provide an explanation as to why you feel the United States has this advantage over the other countries you chose.

4 page minimum with abstract and references in APA format

Develop an annotated bibliography of the sources you have read in preparation for your final course project. Each annotation should include the following elements:

A brief description of the source
A short summary of its primary points or arguments
A brief explanation of how the source is relevant to your project

Format your paper using West Writing Style Handbook guidelines.

Include a minimum of five sources, which may consist of readings from the University Library, your text, and other selections

Please work with your classmates to construct a high-quality, extended academic discussion of the following questions. As always in our class, please work together to clarify concepts, explore questions, and analyze specific passages from our excerpt of Mill’s Utilitarianism.

What, according to Mill, is greatest happiness principle? Exactly how does he think that principle can be used to determine whether a proposed course of action would be the right or the wrong thing to do?
How easy or hard is to to apply the utilitarian “hedonistic calculus”? Does performing these calculations require us to know exactly what will happen in the future? If not, how can we be confident that we understand what the consequences of a proposed action will be

You are an HR manager with Spring Valley Laboratories. The organization pays its employees according to specific pay grades and ranges but maintains secrecy surrounding the specific numbers.

Nancy Lopez, a highly skilled medical technician, discovers that a male employee whose qualifications, experience, and job profile are similar to Nancy’s is getting a considerably better package than she. Nancy serves a notice to the executive director, John Morrison, and threatens to resign if the organization does not grant her an immediate pay increase.

John does not want to lose Nancy because she is a skilled employee who has performed well in her eight-month career with the organization. John writes you an e-mail and seeks your advice on the case. You check Nancy’s employment records and find that Nancy was given the compensation package that she had asked for during her final interview. You also find that Nancy’s package is toward the lower limit of the pay range applicable for her job position. Nancy’s salary is due for review after four months.

Based on this information frame your response to John. The response should answer the following:

Is Nancy’s case a situation where a pay increase is called for? Why or why not? Justify your response with facts.

Is Nancy’s case eligible as a pay inequity grievance? Why or why not? Explain.

How should Spring Valley Laboratories handle the situation? Provide John with a detailed plan of how the situation should be handled.

What impact would granting or not granting Nancy an immediate pay increase have on other employees? Why?

Articulate your response to John’s e-mail. Your response should be in e-mail format and approximately two pages in MSWord. Use structured text (bolding, headings, bulleted lists, tables/charts) where appropriate to improve communicating your points. Ensure that the tone of your response is formal and appropriate for the audience and use references to support your respons

The Discussion Board (DB) is part of the core of online learning. Classroom discussion in an online environment requires the active participation of students and the instructor to create robust interaction and dialogue. Every student is expected to create an original response to the open-ended DB question as well as engage in dialogue by responding to posts created by others throughout the week. At the end of each unit, DB participation will be assessed based on both level of engagement and the quality of the contribution to the discussion.

At a minimum, each student will be expected to post an original and thoughtful response to the DB question and contribute to the weekly dialogue by responding to at least two other posts from students. The first contribution must be posted before midnight (Central Time) on Wednesday of each week. Two additional responses are required after Wednesday of each week. Students are highly encouraged to engage on the Discussion Board early and often, as that is the primary way the university tracks class attendance and participation.

The purpose of the Discussion Board is to allow students to learn through sharing ideas and experiences as they relate to course content and the DB question. Because it is not possible to engage in two-way dialogue after a conversation has ended, no posts to the DB will be accepted after the end of each unit.

Assignment Details

Part 1

Many works of art use symbols to communicate meaning. Research the definition of the word “symbol,” and complete the following:

Choose a work of art from 1 of the following artists:
Tiziano Vecelli (known as Titian)
Leonardo Da Vinci
Michelangelo Buonarotti
Raphael Sanzio
Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio
Gian Lorenzo Bernini
Explain the use of at least 2 symbols in the work.
What are their meanings, and what is the message they convey?
How are these symbols used in today’s culture?
Include the artist’s name, the title of the work, and the date of the work in your post. Paste an image of the work directly into the DB window. Do not post an attachment.

Part 2

Find 2 symbols that you encounter every day in your environment, and complete the following:

Explain the meaning of the symbols and what they communicate.
How are they similar or different from the symbols you researched in Part 1?
Paste an image of these symbols directly into the DB window. You can take a photo or draw them. Do not post as an attachment.

In your own words, please post a response to the Discussion Board and comment on other postings. You will be graded on the quality of your postings.

For assistance with your assignment, please use your text, Web resources, and all course materials. Please refer to the following multimedia course material(s):

Unit 3: Art: Middle Ages and the Renaissance
Unit 3: Middle Ages
Unit 3: Medieval Culture & the Early Renaissance
Unit 3: The Early, High and Northern Renaissanc

As Director of Nursing for an acute care facility, your hospital was ‘dinged’ by the Joint Commission (JC) 3 months ago for inappropriate post-fall assessments and precautions. JC has given you 5 months to improve your fall precautions and will be revisiting your facility in 2 months. What is your plan for reducing inpatient falls? Please use at least two evidence based practices that have proven to reduce inpatient falls. Please list your references

Primary Task Response: Within the Discussion Board area, write 400–600 words that respond to the following questions with your thoughts, ideas, and comments. This will be the foundation for future discussions by your classmates. Be substantive and clear, and use examples to reinforce your ideas.

The time value of money concept is one of the 3 major principles of the study and practice of financial management. It is used to evaluate potential investments, determine a rate of return on a project, calculate the required payments on a loan or annuity, and estimate a future value of funds currently invested and the present value of funds to be received at some future date. It is imperative that managers at all levels of business have a working knowledge of this topic. In your first task, you have been asked to engage your colleagues in a detailed and documented discussion about the time value of money concept: what it is, why it is important, how it is used, and generally, how the applications to single and periodic payments are computed using various calculation methods and formulas.

In your initial post, identify and recommend at least 1 credible Web site that an investor can visit to find the current market value of market indexes such as the Dow Industrial Averages, and address at least 2 of the following:

•What is the discounted cash flow concept, and why is it essential for financial managers to understand and employ this important concept?

•What are the methods associated with evaluating single or periodic payments, and what is at least 1 application of each?

•Discuss the different methods that can be used to calculate these amounts, and explain how at least 1 of these models can be used.

•How can the time value of money models or formulas be used to determine the rate of return for an investment or the time it will take for a current sum to grow to a desired future amount?

•Discuss the “Rule of 72” and how it can be used to estimate how long it takes for money to double at various rates of return.

•Identify and recommend at least 1 credible Web site that an investor can visit to find the current market value of market indexes such as the Dow Industrial Averages.

Be sure to document your posts with in-text citations, credible sources, and properly listed references

The website evaluation paper requires you to summarize and evaluate the contents of a website that is relevant to one of the topics covered in your course. Your evaluation should concisely summarize the contents of the site, indicate the author’s purpose in creating the site, assess the credibility of the author and evaluate the usefulness and accuracy of the information on the site.

Please email your website selection to your instructor for an ok to go ahead with the evaluation of that site.
The site that you choose to evaluate should have at least five separate pages of text and graphics.
The site CANNOT be one of the sites listed anywhere in your course as a suggested website nor can it refer to US history or be from an online encyclopedia. You also cannot evaluate any of the Internet History Sourcebooks, done by Paul Halsall at Fordham University.
Your name and date should appear at the top left of your paper along with
the URL and title of the website that you are evaluating
the date the website was last revised
the name(s) of the author(s) of the site.
If you have any doubts about a selection, please contact your instructor.

The evaluation is a single, unindented, double-spaced paragraph not to exceed one page. You should be critical of your chosen websitein your evaluation, and the following questions should be addressed. Please note that your paragraph should not just be a series of answers to these questions; it should be an overall evaluation and read as such.

Detailed description of the site
Credibility of the site’s author
How knowledgeable is the author on this subject?
What evidence is offered to support that authority?
Accuracy of the site’s information
Are sources for information clearly listed so they can be verified?
Are there grammatical and spelling errors?
Are source materials complete or edited?
Are all images identified with proper citations?
Site bias
Is there reason to suspect bias?
Is there any commercial advertising on the site?
Is there a political/ideological/religious bias or other agenda?
Site purpose
To provide general, or scholarly, information?
To persuade? To entertain? To explain?
How current is the information on the site?
Do any links on the site lead you to any related material? Are the links easy to navigate?
Site Design. Consider these issues:
Is the text easy to read?
Does the site’s structure and navigation make sense?
Do the graphics contribute to your understanding or appreciation of the material?
What might you suggest to make this site more effective