Author: chris

Discussion, consider the stories told by the faculty and staff in the audio program. Each of these individuals represents a different perspective on issues at their institution. Imagine yourself as a program, department, or division leader at an institution like this. Your concerns are meeting the needs of all students, faculty, and staff in your area, implementing new initiatives or approaches that are likely to improve your area’s effectiveness, and working within budgetary and bureaucratic constraints—priorities that often conflict. You face challenges like those raised by leaders at different institutional levels, as described in your reading in Turnaround Leadership. Use the following questions to guide your Discussion:

• How could an administrator or other leader working with faculty and staff like those in the audio program do a better job of addressing their differing perspectives?
• What leadership challenges have you faced in your work environment? Are these similar to or different from those highlighted in the readings and audio program? What leadership skills appear to be necessary in higher education institutions?
• How do you see people in these roles employing leadership strategies to effect change in the institution?
• Are there common leadership strategies or qualities you can identify in the readings, in the audio program, and in the position announcements you found for the Application Assignment?
• Do people in different roles or at di

Please complete the following two applied problems:

Problem 1:

Patricia is researching venues for a restaurant business. She is evaluating three major attributes that she considers important in her choice: taste, location, and price. The value she places on each attribute, however, differs according to what type of restaurant she is going to start. If she opens a restaurant in a suburban area of Los Angeles, then taste is the most important attribute, three times as important as location, and two times as important as price. If she opens a restaurant in the Los Angeles metropolitan area, then location becomes three times as important as taste and two times as important as price. She is considering two venues, respectively, a steak restaurant and a pizza restaurant, both of which are priced the same. She has rated each attribute on a scale of 1 to 100 for each of the two different types of restaurants.

 

	Steak Restaurant	Pizza Restaurant
Taste Location Price	80 55 65	70 80 50

 

Show all of your calculations and processes. Describe your answer for each question in complete sentences.

 

1. Which of the two options should Patricia pursue if she wants to open a restaurant in a suburban area of Los Angeles? Calculate the total expected utility from each restaurant option and compare. Graph is not required. Describe your answer, and show your calculations.
2. Which of the two options should she pick if she plans to open a restaurant in the Los Angeles metropolitan area? Describe your answer, and show your calculations.
3. Which option should she pursue if the probability of finding a restaurant venue in a suburban area can be reliably estimated as 0.7 and in a metropolitan area as 0.3? Describe your reasoning and show your calculations.
4. Provide a description of a scenario in which this kind of decision between two choices, based on weighing their underlying attributes, applies in the “real-world” business setting. Furthermore, what are the benefits and drawbacks, if any, to this method of decision making?

Problem 2:

The demand function for Newton’s Donuts has been estimated as follows:

Qx = -14 – 54Px + 45Py + 0.62Ax

where Qx represents thousands of donuts; Px is the price per donut; Py is the average price per donut of other brands of donuts; and Ax represents thousands of dollars spent on advertising Newton’s Donuts. The current values of the independent variables are Ax=120, Px=0.95, and Py=0.64.

Show all of your calculations and processes. Describe your answer for each question in complete sentences, whenever it is necessary.

1. Calculate the price elasticity of demand for Newton’s Donuts and describe what it means. Describe your answer and show your calculations.
2. Derive an expression for the inverse demand curve for Newton’s Donuts. Describe your answer and show your calculations.
3. If the cost of producing Newton’s Donuts is constant at $0.15 per donut, should they reduce the price and thereafter, sell more donuts (assuming profit maximization is the company’s goal)?
4. Should Newton’s Donuts spend more on advertising?

using the outline below write an 500 word informative essay in third person only ( no second or first person)  any other information you find can be added to the essay. it must be at least 500 words and in mla format with a thesis statement.

 

First supporting paragraph

A. One benefit of going to college is an increase in pay and knowledge.

1.       Education, it seems, does pay off. College graduates last year earned 75% more than high school graduates, according to The Wall Street Journal.

2.       Pay is even better for those with advanced degrees. They can expect to earn an average of $3 million in their lifetimes, more than twice the $1.4 million average for those with bachelor’s degrees, the U.S. Census Bureau reported.

 

2.  second supporting paragraph

A. One disadvantage of going to college is College expenses and time.

1. Most people do not have enough money to pay for their college education upfront, requiring them to take out loans.

2.Student loans usually have a grace period of six months; if you don’t find a job in that amount of time, you may end up having to make high payments without having a paycheck.

3.    third supporting paragraph

A.  The disadvantage of going to college outweigh the benefits.

1.     with tuition rising and wages falling many college students drop out of college to work more hours or get a second job to pay bills.

2.    Most college graduates find it hard to obtain a job with in their major. For young college graduates the unemployment rate is currently 8.5 percent compared to 5.5 percent in 2007 and the underemployment rate us 16.8 percent.

Loss Prevention Policies
You have been working for about ten years within the private sector as a fraud investigator. You are now the director of fraud management with a well-known amusement park. Because your amusement park handles hundreds of thousands of dollars and credit card information, you must have a great fraud prevention program. Management is aware of a need for increased requirements for the amusement park to maintain a system of internal control to help prevent and detect fraud. The chief executive officer (CEO) of the amusement park, Mary Moore, is also interested in using a proactive posture toward building an antifraud prevention program, including exploring using a proactive auditing approach for fraud discovery. You have had discussions with the internal auditor and your external fraud investigators as well as accounting and consulting firms for proactive approaches for detecting fraud.
Management is aware that eliminating the opportunity for fraud is critical. Recently, the Institute of Internal Auditors (IIA), the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA), and the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (ACFE) have adopted a comprehensive guide for managing the business risk of fraud.
Please answer the following questions in preparing this paper of 3–5 pages. As you answer each question, you must provide support or evidence that will enhance and empirically prove your answers. Academic criminal justice articles or real life criminal justice findings that are not found in journals or other academic sources must be used when supporting your answers. Please use APA style for all cited sources, including your reference page.
• What are the benefits of a comprehensive control program? If you were advising this corporation, what would be the specific benefits for it?
• What procedures should be considered for detective controls, including independent checks and a system for documents and records?
• Because an amusement park deals with a large amount of cash and electronic funds like credit cards, discuss the possibility of a fraud hotline as part of your program. Remember that an amusement park is just like a corporation in organization and goals for making profits. How can a hotline be implemented as a tool for preventing and detecting fraud?
• What recommendations would you offer the CEO to encourage a culture of honesty, openness, and assistance?
• Do you think that a culture of honesty, openness, and assistance can exist as suggested by Ms. Moore? Or is it a utopian idea with no understanding of how human nature works? Please provide examples to justify your answer.
3-5 Pages/APA Format

1) What is the TCP/IP suite? List and describe 5 protocols of  the suite. (10 points)

Q2) How can network administrators identify a potential Denial of Service Attack (10 points)

A financial transaction is an economic event that affects the assets and equities of the firm, is reflected in its accounts, and is measured in monetary terms. Financial transactions are common, repetitive events that involve external parties (customers or suppliers) or internal events (depreciation, use of materials, etc.). Similar transactions are grouped into cycles.

Conduct a preliminary search and:

• Discuss the key activities in the revenue, conversion, and expenditure cycles.
• What does an entity-relationship diagram represent? Why do accountants need to understand them?
• There are two subsystems to the revenue cycle. Discuss what are they and what occurs within each.

In your own words, post a substantive response to the Discussion Board question(s) and comment on other postings. Your response should address the DB question(s) and move the conversation forward. You will be graded on the quality of your postings, including mastery of the concept as well as critical thinking. If asked for your opinion, do not simply state that it is a good or bad idea; elaborate on your reasons and argument. Include enough detail to substantiate your thinking as well as your position on the questions or comments.

Please submit your assignment.

Grading Criteria
Basic response to the DB question.	50%
Additional research to supporting the initial answer to the DB question.	30%
Comments that serve to further the discussion, apply real-world examples, or lend to enhancing the clarity of the concepts.	20%

In this third week assignment, you will prepare a brief outline in which you will draft the main content areas to be examined in greater detail in the Final Project. To begin, select one of the following groups in need from which you will base your outline:

• Children and families
• The elderly
• The homeless
• Mental illness
• Physical disability

Prepare an outline that identifies (lists) and describes each of the content areas below (three to five sentences for each area) that you might use with clients from this group if you were a human services professional.

Communication Book:

• Describe one communication theory that can be applied in a health and human services setting.
• Describe an effective verbal communication technique in a health and human services setting and how you would use it.
• Describe an effective nonverbal communication technique in a health and human services setting and how you would use it.
• Describe one empathy skill in interpersonal and group settings (e.g., one-on-one client interaction, facilitating a group session, etc.)  and how you would use it in both situations.
• Describe the impact of family, culture, and gender related to your communication with clients.

The anthropology of education and of schooling have changed from the time of Spindler in the 1955 to the present in terms of methods and emphasis. McDermott,  Raley, and Wolcott trace continuities through three identified eras and discuss where we might be headed.

Discuss the evolution of the anthropology of schooling by (a) synthesizing the historical evolution of the subfield and (b) offering suggestions to scholars about what must happen to the methods and foci of the anthropology of schooling in its near future so that it may make a positive impact on the understanding of the context of schooling

 

 

400-500 word essay

in APA style

in 2 and half hours

Assignment Instructions
While working as an analyst in a Combatant Command, a tasking has come down from a senior official which says: Make me smart about National Security and Diplomacy – how do they interrelate, how does it function, some history and provide me with future recommendations regarding this and how it all ties together the military, national security and diplomacy stuff!!

Your job is to respond to this tasking by writing a profile of National Security and Diplomacy with the above as a loose guideline. Your profile is required to be 12-15 pages, double spaced, 12 point font, times new roman, excluding bibliography and title page. Please ensure your bibliography is in Turabian format. The use of in your profile of several PowerPoint briefing slides is also strongly encouraged.

1. Concise introduction to National Security and Diplomacy
2. Discussion of the principles and elements of National Security and Diplomacy (soft & hard power, foreign aid, economic power, political power, cross cultural norms and any other relevant aspects)
3. Discussion of how Diplomacy serve the needs of the USG and the its relationship to the projection of military power
4. Your conclusions based on 1-3
5. Recommendations regarding the best possible methods for American Diplomacy

The textbook explains that, although counterintuitive, advertising should not focus on the product or service being sold, but should rather focus on the needs and desires of its target market. It quotes Michael Newman (2003) stating:

“Don’t tell me about your manure, tell me about my flowers”

View the advertisements, below. Then, select three and explain if and how you see the above concept in action. Describe what product or service each of the three ads is trying to sell (e.g., manure). Then, explain what you think each ad is actually selling (e.g., a beautiful flower garden). Finally, describe whether you can think of any ethical concerns related to this approach of communication.

•  Obama: “Hope” (Political Campaign Poster)   (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama_%22Hope%22_poster)
• “We Can Do It!” (Propaganda Poster)  (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_Can_Do_It!)
• Old Spice: The Man Your Man Could Smell Like  (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owGykVbfgUE)

• 1984 Apple’s Macintosh Commercial (HD)  [Video file]. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://www.youtube.com/embed/VtvjbmoDx-I
• Click here for a transcript of the video.
• Volkswagen: “Think Small” (Print Ad)  (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Think_Small.jpg)

Guided Response: Respond to at least two of your peers. How did your interpretation of the advertisements differ from theirs? How was it similar? Finally, looking at the possible differences in interpretation, what does this tell you about communicating a message in advertising?