Category: Essays

Prepare a 3 – 4 page double-spaced paper that evaluates and recommends distribution channels, pricing, and competitive differentiation. Support your discussion with three academic sources, which may include your textbook, and/or credible business journals such as Barrons, Wall Street Journal and Business Week. Your analysis should include:

Distribution Channels:

• Identify two (2) or more potential distribution channels for your product or service, and discuss three (3) advantages and three (3) disadvantages of each channel; support your analysis with two or more academic sources. Select and justify which channel is best and why.

• Discuss how you would use e-business to support and enhance your chosen channel. Be specific as to what you would do and how you would do it; support your analysis with data.

Pricing:

• Describe why your product or service is price sensitive or price insensitive • Identify and discuss three (3) factors that would influence how to set the price for your product or service, and recommend a competitive pricing structure supporting your analysis with data.

Competition:

• Discuss how the distribution channel, e-business and pricing strategy will differentiate your product or service from your closest competitor; be specific supporting your analysis with dat

Prepare a 3 – 4 page double-spaced paper that evaluates and recommends distribution channels, pricing, and competitive differentiation. Support your discussion with three academic sources, which may include your textbook, and/or credible business journals such as Barrons, Wall Street Journal and Business Week. Your analysis should include:

Distribution Channels:

• Identify two (2) or more potential distribution channels for your product or service, and discuss three (3) advantages and three (3) disadvantages of each channel; support your analysis with two or more academic sources. Select and justify which channel is best and why.

• Discuss how you would use e-business to support and enhance your chosen channel. Be specific as to what you would do and how you would do it; support your analysis with data.

Pricing:

• Describe why your product or service is price sensitive or price insensitive • Identify and discuss three (3) factors that would influence how to set the price for your product or service, and recommend a competitive pricing structure supporting your analysis with data.

Competition:

• Discuss how the distribution channel, e-business and pricing strategy will differentiate your product or service from your closest competitor; be specific supporting your analysis with data.

You are asked to write about an ethical or otherwise controversial issue that is characterized by conflicting positions for the opinion page of a national newspaper.

Audience: Readers of a national newspaper

Research Task: Use the Internet to conduct research to find 3 or more reliable sources (expert opinions, facts or statistical data) to integrate into your essay. 1 source must support the opposing position to your argument so that you can use it for a counter-argument.

Writing Task: Discuss the issue and argue your position convincingly by integrating sources in meaningful and logical manner. See p. 117, content and example essays from the chapter for guidance.

Requirements:

Brainstorm and select quality topic that interests you.

Create an outline to organize your ideas.

Your essay should be approximately 2.5-3 pages in length, and include Times New Roman 12-point font with 1” margins (APA format guidelines). Your essay should maintain an argumentative focus throughout, and should include the following:

Introduction (thesis statement, hook, background information)
Body Paragraphs (number dictated by organizational structure and supporting points)
Conclusion (restate the thesis statement in a new way, and provide a prediction, warning or otherwise leave the reader wanting to know more about the issue or take action

Select one of the three careers you identified and discussed in M1 Assignment 2and conduct a job search for actual openings in your area. If you are willing to eventually relocate, you may choose openings elsewhere as well. You may choose to use at least one source or all of the following sources to find available positions in your chosen career of interest:

Local newspaper ads (online or printed editions)
Networking websites such as LinkedIn
Networking with colleagues, peers, or other contacts
Your state employment office
Listings on professional organizations’ websites

Refer to the “Job Resources” document to find additional online sources relating to online job searches.

Job Search Data Bank

Click here to download and review a copy of the “Job Search Data Bank” template. Provide the results of the mock job search you completed for this assignment by filling out the table in the template.

Begin by summarizing your career interests. Briefly describe what you concluded from Module 1 about the types of positions best suited to your career interests. For example, if you are most interested in a career as a psychologist, would you prefer to pursue a position in a clinic, a private practice, or a nonprofit organization? Would you prefer to specialize in working with children? Do you hope to have a research or teaching position instead?
List at least four positions you found during your job search. These four positions should match the interests you identified in Module 1.
Describe each position fully, providing as much of the available information as possible from the ads. Copy the ads and paste them into the table.
For each identified job opening, indicate the likelihood of your being eligible for the position upon graduating from college with a bachelor’s degree.
If you would be ineligible, specify what additional training or education you would require to qualify for the position.
Indicate whether you are willing to pursue that additional training or education.
Describe the amount of time, the cost, and other resources you think you would need to invest to become qualified.
Put the information in your own words. Place quotation marks around the portions you have quoted from the ads. Cite your sources using APA style in-text citations and a reference list in APA style below your table in the “Job Search Data Bank” template provided

magine that you are a member of the HR department of a small retail company and upper management has asked you to create a new employee customer service training class for all new employees.

 

Write a six to seven (6-7) pages paper in which you:

1. Justify the use of a needs assessment of your company’s proposed employee customer service training, stressing five (5) ways in which such an assessment would expose any existing performance deficiencies.
2. Develop a customer service training implementation plan and determine the method of training (i.e., presentation, discussion, case study, discovery, role play, simulation, modeling, or on-the-job training).
3. Justify why you selected the training method that you did.
4. Propose two (2) ways to motivate an employee who has no interest in attending a training class.

1. Develop a survey to collect feedback from the employees who attend the training.
2. Use at least three (3) quality academic resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and other Websites do not qualify as academic 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.

Develop one original fictional case study that portrays a specific diagnosis within the categories of: anxiety, somatic symptom disorders, or dissociative disorders.

The case description must include all of the DSM criteria necessary to diagnose that disorder, but may also include additional symptoms not found within that diagnostic category. Include some demographic background of the fictional case subject. This portion of the assignment should be 1 pg.

Mental health professionals are often trained in one or more theoretical orientations.

Each theoretical orientation provides a specific insight into why a person acts the way he or she does. The theoretical orientation also guides the professional’s choice of treatment options to address the symptoms presented by the individual to be treated. Several theoretical explanations of abnormal behavior have been described in your readings for this module. Some of these are biological, psychodynamic, behavioral, existential, cognitive, and sociocultural.

Identify the treatment approach for your case based upon the theory you have chosen to explain the disorder.

Then in 1-pg, write your own theoretical analysis of case characteristics in relation to the disorder the case represents.

Write the case and theoretical analysis in a 1-page paper in Word format. Be sure to include an APA style title page and to cite the online course and the text applying APA standards

locate an organization that has implemented a stress management program. Compose a 4-6 page paper in which you detail the components that the program provides to employees. What additional components would you, as a consultant, suggest to the organization (provide business reasons and cost-justification for your proposal)? Compare the organization’s stress management program with how other stress models might be implemented. It has to be APA format

Based on the information contained on the website above, answer the following questions:

1. What was Real GDP for 2014?
   1. What does GDP tell us?
   2. How did GDP change from 2013?
   3. What caused these changes?
2. What was GNP for 2014?
   1. What is the difference between GDP and GNP?
   2. How did GNP change from 2013?
   3. What caused these changes?
3. What was National Income (NI) for 2014?
   1. What does National Income tell us?
   2. What is the difference between GNP and NI?
   3. How did NI change from 2013?
   4. What caused these changes?
4. What was Disposable Income (DI) for 2014?
   1. What does Disposable Income consist of?
   2. How did DI change from 2013?
   3. What caused these changes?
5. What was GDP in 2013 (sometimes called GSP) for your state?

Submit your responses in an Microsoft Word document in a short answer/worksheet format.

By Wednesday, November 18, 2015, submit your responses to the appropriate M2: Assignment 2 Dropbox.

Assignment 2 Grading Criteria	Maximum Points
Researched the data correctly and answered each question in a complete and accurate manner. Sixteen points for each question, 1–5.	80
Wrote in a clear, concise, and organized manner; demonstrated ethical scholarship in accurate representation and attribution of sources; displayed accurate spelling

Prepare a 1,050- to 1,750-word paper that explains how technology affects the communication capabilities of specialized databases in the criminal justice system.

Include the following in your paper:

A comparison of at least two types of specialized databases, such as the following:
Mobile data terminals
AFIS
Live scan
Facial recognition
Iris scan
Positive effects of new technologies on communication
Negative effects of new technologies on communication
A discussion about which new specialized technologies you might want to use and why

Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines

This time, I have decided to assign a short (five pages, not including the reference and title pages) paper concerning Munchausen syndrome by proxy (MSbP).

• You should include an introduction which will state what you know (if you have any prior knowledge) about MSbP prior to this assignment.
• Do some research and tell me about MSbP.
• Did you learn anything you didn’t know before…or is all of this ‘old hat’ to you?
• Do you know anyone who has committed MSbP or was a victim of MSbP?
• What are some problems diagnosing this illness? Is it ever confused with anything else?
• What are the chances of getting a prosecution on this type of case?
• What is the evidence?
• How it is investigated?
• And then…wrap up in a conclusion ….did you learn anything?
• You may compare MSbP and Munchausen syndrome in the body of your paper (if you would like). What is the difference?

Please type the paper, include a copy sheet with your name, class name, and assignment name – along with my name and date you submit it. Be sure to use a size 12 Times New Roman font, double spacing and spell check your work. Use APA format as well.